Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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636. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a child benefit payment will resume in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1317/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned first received child benefit in respect of her eldest children from June 2001, the month after her arrival in the State. Payment in respect of her next two children commenced in each case from the month following their birth.

In May 2016, a claim was received in respect of two additional children; who were born in 2011 and 2013. No reference had been made to these children in previous correspondence and their births were only registered on 16^thMay 2016.

Payment in respect of these two children was awarded from June 2016 in accordance with the Department’s late claims legislation. The person concerned was informed of the decision in writing and advised of her right of appeal. No further correspondence has since been received from her.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.