Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 253: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Irish citizens who reach their 100th birthday and living abroad are entitled to the special presidential bounty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18426/06]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Government has widened the eligibility criteria of the Centenarian Bounty scheme such that all Irish citizens born in the island of Ireland who have reached 100 years of age, wherever they may reside, are now eligible to apply for the Bounty. My Department will take the lead in processing applications from people resident outside the State and officials are already in contact with the families of a number of applicants resident in Northern Ireland, Britain and the USA.