Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2016 of increasing the maximum child age of the one-parent family payment from its current threshold of seven years to 12 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33810/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The full-year cost, in 2016, of increasing the one-parent family payment (OFP) scheme maximum child age threshold from seven years to twelve years would be approximately €23.5 million.

It should be noted that this figure includes a reduction in expenditure on the back to work family dividend (BTWFD) scheme. This arises as lone parents who currently are in receipt of this payment would no longer be entitled to the dividend were they to requalify for the OFP payment.