Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average time spent in receipt of the one-parent family payment, per parent. [25461/15]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of parents who have received the one-parent family payment for 22 years or more. [25462/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 36 and 37 together.

One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) was introduced by the Government in 1997 and was administered by the Department’s office in Sligo. On 1 May 2005 a localisation project commenced to transfer administration of the scheme to the Social Welfare Local Offices throughout the country. Unfortunately due to the necessity for claims to be registered on a different computer system it was not possible to migrate payment history details to the current payment system and therefore the information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department.

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of parents in receipt of the one-parent family payment and the family income supplement in each year from 2007 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [25463/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the number of parents in receipt of the One Parent Family and Family Income Supplement payment concurrently each year from 2007 to 2010 is not readily available in my Department. However, the information requested for the years 2011 to 2015 is set out in the tabular statement.

Concurrent recipients of the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) and Family Income Supplement (FIS) payment 2011 to 2015