Séamus Kirk (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average social transfer in 2012 for the top 10% of income earners and the bottom 10% of income earners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4102/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Data on the distribution of social transfers by income decile are reported by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions. Data for 2012, as requested by the deputy, are unlikely to be published by the CSO until the end of 2013. The publication of data for 2011 has been delayed and is now expected later this year. The 2011 data will include revised data for 2010 (originally published by the CSO in March 2012).