Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the cost of allowing long-term unemployed persons who return to the work force to retain the qualified child increase payment for a period of one year after they take up employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38266/14]

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the cost of providing long-term unemployed persons who return to the work force with the option to retain an additional payment of €50 per week for a period of one year after they take up employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38267/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 142 and 143 together.

The estimated full year cost of allowing persons in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance for excess 312 days (1 year) to retain increases in respect of qualified children for a period of one year after they exit the scheme to employment is some €22m.

The estimated full year cost of a scheme of support, payable at a rate of €50 per week for one year, to persons who have exited jobseeker’s allowance to employment, following receipt for over 312 days, is some €104m.