Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the respite care grant and carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17872/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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At the end of March there were 76,097 persons in receipt of a carer’s allowance payment.

The carer’s support grant (formerly the respite care grant) is paid annually on the first Tuesday in June. Some 113,500 such payments were made in 2017.