Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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529. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of restoring the payment of child benefit to the children of asylum seekers living in direct provision. [34717/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department does not hold information regarding the number of children in direct provision. In order to qualify for payment of child benefit, a person must satisfy the Habitual Residence Condition. Section 246 (7) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 lists persons who shall not be regarded as habitually resident and this includes those who are at any stage of the asylum process, or who have similar forms of request for permission to remain in Ireland, but in respect of whom such permission has not yet been granted.