Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who received the carer's support grant in 2016; the expenditure on the grant in 2016; the number of persons who have received the grant to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21582/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Provisional expenditure for 2016 on the Carer’s Support Grant was €172.3m, which represents payment of just under 101,400 grants. The grant was paid at €1,700 in respect of each person being cared for.

It is anticipated that about 106,400 grants will be paid this year, resulting in expenditure of €180.9m. Expenditure to end-March 2017 was just under €3.7m. While payment of the grant is made throughout the year about 90% of all payments are made on the 1^stThursday in June to carers in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance.