Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of families in receipt of child benefit; the extent to which this number has fluctuated over the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50137/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The information requested by the Deputy is in the tabular statement. The number of families on child benefit has been broadly stable over the period.

Tabular statement