Written answers

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Department of Social Protection

Child Benefit Payments

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form the number of recipients of child benefit who are in receipt of payments for third and subsequent child broken down by country and number of children. [55373/12]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Child Benefit is paid to around 608,000 families in respect of some 1.16 million children. It is a universal payment that assists parents with the cost of raising children and contributes towards alleviating child poverty. It is expected that some €2 billion will be spent on Child Benefit in 2012.

Child benefit is paid to almost 141,000 families in which there are three or more children. Just under 475,000 children live in families where there are three or more children. This represents 23% of families and 40% of children. Almost three quarters of these families have three children and more than nine out of ten of the families concerned have either three or four children.

Child benefit is paid to a total of 189 families with three or more children in respect of 620 children who are living outside Ireland. This represents less than one seventh of one per cent of the families and children concerned.

The tabular statement gives a further breakdown of these data.

County
Number of Families with 3+ Children
Number of Children in Families with 3+ Children
Antrim
7
23
Armagh
38
134
Carlow
1,973
6,583
Cavan
2,774
9,534
Clare
3,985
13,403
Cork
15,910
53,172
Derry
51
172
Donegal
5,424
18,686
Down
98
340
Dublin
32,311
108,228
Fermanagh
67
222
Galway
7,950
27,215
Kerry
4,256
14,309
Kildare
7,509
25,118
Kilkenny
2,971
9,984
Laois
2,731
9,298
Leitrim
1,119
3,857
Limerick
5,568
18,772
Longford
1,457
5,097
Louth
4,161
13,952
Mayo
4,278
14,715
Meath
6,740
22,411
Monaghan
2,111
7,232
Offaly
2,580
8,780
Roscommon
2,004
6,851
Sligo
2,011
6,869
Tipperary
5,041
17,109
Tyrone
31
106
Waterford
3,559
11,866
Westmeath
2,923
9,979
Wexford
4,707
15,826
Wicklow
4,376
14,515
Outside Ireland
189
620
Total
140,910
474,978

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