Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if respite grant entitlement continues to exist in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15987/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Respite Care Grant forms part of a range of illness, disability and carer supports provided by my department to people with disabilities and those who care for them. The due date of the grant is the 1 Thursday in June of the year in question.

The grant is paid automatically to people in receipt of Carers Allowance, Carers Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance. The person concerned was recently awarded Carers Allowance from September 2014. He will receive payment of the 2015 Grant on 4 June 2015, once he is in receipt of Carers Allowance on that date.

His possible entitlement to the 2014 Grant is also under consideration and in this regard my department was recently in contact with him seeking some additional information. A decision will be sent to him, as soon as his reply is received.