Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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68. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if fuel allowance is payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49408/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Fuel allowance is paid to people who are dependent on long-term social welfare payments and who satisfy the qualifying conditions.

The person concerned is in receipt of illness benefit which is classed as a short term benefit and as such is not one of the qualifying schemes for receipt of fuel allowance.