Seán Haughey (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of legislation to exclude compensation awards arising from the Stardust fire as means for social welfare purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24243/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Social welfare legislation provides for the disregard of certain compensation awards when assessing the means of a person for social assistance purposes.

My Department is currently drafting legislation which will result in awards from the Stardust compensation scheme being disregarded as means for social welfare purposes.

Pending the passage of this legislation, it was decided in December last year to disregard these awards on an administrative basis from 15 December 2016.