Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be entitled to the respite care grant in June 2015. [21218/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The respite care grant (RCG) is paid automatically in June of each year (usually on the first Thursday of the month), to carers getting carer's allowance, carer's benefit, domiciliary care allowance or prescribed relative's allowance from the Department.

Carer’s allowance is not payable when the carer or care recipient is outside of the State. However carer’s allowance may be paid for up to 3 weeks if the recipient is abroad on a respite break. If this payment period includes the first Thursday of June then the RCG is paid automatically. As the care recipient in question will be abroad on a respite break, and the 3 weeks holiday payment period will include the first Thursday of June, the person in question will be automatically paid the RCG.