Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 442: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 789 of 19 January 2010, the reason for the discrepancy between the 2008 figures provided in the reply and those provided in her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 10 March 2009 in respect of the refusal of social welfare payments to Irish citizens for failure to meet the habitual residency requirements. [3452/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Based on the information available in March 2009 in the Central Unit dealing with habitual residency cases, the number of Irish people refused for failure to meet the habitual residency requirements was 424.

In addition to the decisions made in the central unit and the other payment areas, the figure of 985 which was provided in response to the question on 19th January is an accurate reflection of the number of decisions made in offices throughout the Department. This figure took account of cases dealt with in the Central Decisions Unit and in the HQ payment areas in Sligo, Letterkenny and Longford. It subsequently emerged, however, that a number of other cases had been decided locally and these cases had not been reported centrally.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 443: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and awarded their jobseeker's allowance. [3478/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned applied for jobseeker's allowance on 19 January 2010 having exhausted entitlement to jobseekers benefit on 6 January 2010. Her application is currently being examined and she will be notified as soon as a decision is made.