Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are in receipt of carer's allowance that are not immediate family members; her plans to have those in receipt of the allowance Garda vetted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6299/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Carers’ benefit and carers’ allowance are income supports not commercial considerations, payable to people who provide full-time care. The Department does not collect or collate information on the relationship of the carer to the person requiring care, therefore such information is not available. Where there is a commercial consideration and the carer is an employee, the responsibility for arranging Garda vetting rests with the employer or employing agency. I have no plans to introduce Garda vetting in respect of carers’ allowance recipients.