Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a claim for jobseeker's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13286/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Due to staff currently being taken, I regret that I am unable provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applicants who are under 20 years who are in receipt of rental supplement on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13287/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme provides for a weekly or monthly supplement to be paid in respect of rent or mortgage interest to any person in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive on behalf of the Department.

The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support, to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source.

As of December 2009, the most up to date information available, the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement who are less than twenty years of age is 1,359. This represents 1.5% of the total number of persons currently benefitting from the scheme. Due to industrial action this analysis cannot be provided on a county basis.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 177: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of child benefit payments; the cost his departmental review and control measures in relation to checking eligibility and combating fraud; the details of the review and control measures in operation by her Department for child benefit; her views on the viability of using PRSI paid or credited contribution records or other social welfare claim information as a means of checking eligibility to child benefit and reducing the level of fraud on the scheme; the barriers to introducing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13315/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Due to staff action currently being taken, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of non-Irish national family receiving child benefit in 2009; if certificates continue to be issued on a quarterly basis to non-Irish national child benefit recipients to check eligibility to the payment on employment or residency grounds; the number of such certificates issued in 2009; the cost of issuing same; the number of claimants whose payments were stopped as a result of these checks; the savings which accrued to her Department as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13316/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Due to staff action currently being taken, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 179: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 is asked to supply the same information every three months with regard to the child benefit claim. [13323/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Due to staff action currently being taken, I regret that I am unable to provide the information sought by the Deputy.