Written answers

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Department of Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits Numbers

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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591. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the partial capacity benefit in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34870/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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600. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of the adaptive benefit in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county, the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34879/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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605. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the standard bereavement grant in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34884/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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613. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the rural social scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34892/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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615. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34898/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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616. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the living alone increase in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34899/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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617. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the household benefits package in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34900/13]

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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619. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the social welfare and living on an island option in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34902/13]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 591, 600, 605, 613, 615 to 617, inclusive, and 619 together.

The information requested by the Deputy in respect of 2010 and 2011 remains unchanged to that forwarded to him in reply to questions 476, 485, 490, 497, 501, 502, 503 & 505 on 6 November 2012.

The number of recipients of Social Welfare at county level breakdown is not published by my Department for these schemes in the Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services report. A copy of the 2012 Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services, which my Department laid before the Dáil and published on the Department’s website, contains the requested statistics in relation to 2012 and has issued to the Deputy under separate cover. I enclose for the Deputy’s information, in tabular format, the total number of recipients in each of the schemes referred to at the end of May 2013 along with the estimated scheme expenditure for 2013.

SchemeNumber of Recipients

As on 31/05/2013
REV 2013

€000
Partial Capacity BenefitN/A8,500
Adoptive Benefit10420
Bereavement Grant10,26422,100
Rural Social Scheme2,53145,000
Fuel AllowanceInformation regarding the allowance's recipients is not segregated from the statistics of the schemes under which it is paid.211,100
Living Alone Allowance177,197The cost of the Allowance is not segregated from the scheme expenditure under which it is paid.
Household Benefit Recipients



Number of Household Benefits

Electricity

Cash Electricity

Gas

Telephone

T.V. License

Total
416,306





292,269

70,614

44,884

395,339

411,436

1,214,542










283,670







Island Allowance551The cost of the Allowance is not segregated from the scheme expenditure under which it is paid.

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