John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons listed as self employed that are in receipt of social welfare payments, in tabular form. [3731/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The distinction between ‘self-employed’ and ‘employed’ does not form part of the eligibility criteria for most social welfare payments.

Five schemes where self-employment status is directly relevant to payment eligibility are:

1. People with a previous or continuing self-employed status on Jobseeker’s Allowance;

2. Farm Assist, where it is a condition of payment that the recipient is actively engaged in farming on their own behalf;

3. Fish Assist, where the recipient must be engaged in fishing;

4. Short-term Enterprise Allowance;

5. Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.

In respect of those payments, the information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the attached tabular statement.

Recipient of an unemployment social welfare payment where self-employed status is relevant to eligibility, at the end of December 2017