John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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2078. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full year estimated cost of increasing the earning disregard for the one-parent family payment and jobseeker's transition payment to €146.50. [28514/17]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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2084. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the earnings disregard for the one-parent family payment and the jobseeker's transition payment to €146.50, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28550/17]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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2113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the income disregard for one parent family payment and jobseeker's transition payment to €146.50; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28991/17]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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2120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the earning disregard for the one parent family jobseeker's transition payment to €146.50 to allow lone parents to take up and increase working hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29113/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 2078, 2084, 2113 and 2120 together.

The cost of increasing the One Parent Family Payment and the Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment earnings disregard from €110 per week to €146.50 per week is set out in tabular form below:

The above costings are based on the number of recipients who were working and earning in excess of €110 per week on both the One-Parent Family Payment and the Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment as of March 2017.

The costings do not take into account potential behavioural changes, or the inflow of new entrants, which may arise from the introduction of higher income disregards. There would be additional costs on foot of these two factors, which are not possible to cost and have not been factored into the above costing of €15.3 million.