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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there are circumstances in which domiciliary care allowance or carer's benefit would be paid to the parent of an infant who is a long-term inpatient in a hospital when the hospital requires that the parent be part of their care and present in the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52488/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (28 Nov 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My department provides a comprehensive package of carers’ income supports including Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Combined spending on these payments to carers in 2023 is estimated at almost €1.6 billion. Carer's Benefit is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for...

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