John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of lone parents in receipt of the one-parent family payment that are receiving child maintenance payments. [48493/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As of October 2017, there were 39,303 people in receipt of the One-parent Family Payment (OFP).

The Department’s records show that 20,713 (or 53%) of these recipients are in receipt of child maintenance payments.