Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of dependent parents pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37646/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Dependent Parents' Pension is a payment under the Occupational Injuries Scheme. It forms part of the Occupational Injuries death benefit payments. If a person dies because of an accident at work or a prescribed occupational disease or was getting disablement pension assessed at 50% or more at the time of their death and leaves a dependent parent or parents, each parent may get a pension. To qualify, the parent must have been wholly or mainly maintained by the deceased. Because of the expansion of other services this payment has not been claimed for many years. There are currently 4 persons in receipt of dependent parents' pension.