Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in receipt of child benefit to date; the extent to which these numbers have varied over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51204/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As at 31 October 2017, child benefit was in payment to a total of 627,318 families.

The number of families in receipt of child benefit in the period 2012 to 2016 is set out in the table: