Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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1237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied). [24877/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care.

My department has not to date received an application from the person concerned for CA. If they wish to make an application, they should complete and return the application form (CR1) that I have arranged to have issued to them.

Only on receipt of a fully completed application form can their entitlement to CA be determined.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.