Written answers
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Benefits
5:00 pm
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is 13 years old or over and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23961/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is ten years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23962/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is nine years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23963/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is eight years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23964/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is seven years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23965/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is six years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23966/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is five years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23967/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is four years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23968/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is three years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23969/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is two years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23970/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is one year old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23971/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is under one year old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23972/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings he has calculated that will be made from the proposed change to the one-parent family payment of the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form. [23973/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is two years old and currently in receipt of one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24029/10]
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is 11 years old and currently in receipt of one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24030/10]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 to 139, inclusive, 142 and 143 together.
The details of the number of recipients of the One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) by the age of their youngest child as at September 2009 (the most recent data available) is set out in the table.
Age of the youngest child | Number of OFP recipients |
0 | 5,098 |
1 | 8,920 |
2 | 8,420 |
3 | 7,319 |
4 | 6,896 |
5 | 6,372 |
6 | 6,027 |
7 | 5,570 |
8 | 5,005 |
9 | 4,485 |
10 | 4,088 |
11 | 3,699 |
12 | 3,376 |
13 | 2,802 |
14 | 2,597 |
15 | 2,301 |
16 | 2,234 |
17 | 2,140 |
18 | 1,022 |
19 | 533 |
20 | 353 |
21 | 159 |
22 | 52 |
89,468 total |
The estimated savings that will arise from the implementation of the proposed changes to the One-Parent Family Payment will arise mainly in the long-term.
The details of these savings are as follows:
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | â'¬m | |
Total | 1.1 | 5.5 | 12.5 | 20.7 | 26.2 | 32.5 | 39.1 |
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