John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is in receipt of the maximum carer's allowance and respite payments. [34379/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Carer's allowance (CA) is a social assistance payment made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a relevant person/persons and whose income falls below certain limits.

My Department informs me that to date, no application by the person concerned for CA has been received from the person concerned.

Accordingly, I have arranged for an application form (CR1) to issue to him, which he should complete and return as soon as possible, in order that my Department may determine his entitlement to CA.

If he has already submitted an application in the past few days, there is no need to re-submit a new application and my Department will be in touch in relation to the application in due course.

A carer’s support grant (CSG) formerly known as the respite care grant, can be payable to persons providing full-time care and who are not in receipt of CA, carer’s benefit or domiciliary care allowance.

The person concerned has been paid the full CSG for 2014, 2015 and 2016.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.