Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a long-term illness payment. [45188/17]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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There are 54,244 customers in receipt of illness benefit. Of these 15,612 are claiming for more than two years, 35,684 are claims with entitlement limited to 624 days (two years) and 2,948 are claims with entitlement limited to 312 days (one year). There are 132,321 customers in receipt of Disability Allowance and 57,185 customers in receipt of Invalidity Pension.