Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details on the parent benefit scheme; the number of applications that have been received from counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath in the past 12 months, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17209/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Parent’s Benefit is a scheme for parents in the first 2 years after their child’s birth or adoption. It is paid while on parent's leave from work if he or she has sufficient PRSI contributions.

The number of applications for Parent's Benefit are not available at county level. Table 1 below shows the number of claims registered and claims awarded in each quarter from the beginning of 2021 to 28th February 2022. Table 2 below shows the number of recipients of Parent's Benefit in Cavan, Monaghan and Meath in the period from Quarter 1 2021 to Quarter 2022. Information on quarterly recipients are available in the Quarterly Statistical Report on gov.ie/dsp/statistics, and also in open data form on data.gov.ie/organization/department-of-social-protection.

Table 1: Number of registered and awarded Parent's Benefit claims, by quarter.

Table 2: The number of recipients of Parent's Benefit in Cavan, Monaghan and Meath, by quarter.

Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who availed of the enhanced fuel allowance scheme announced by the Government; the number of persons who benefited in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17212/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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A total of 353,355 individuals have availed of a supplementary fuel allowance payment of €125 in March 2022. Around 6,496 of these individuals were based in Cavan, 5,084 were based in Monaghan and 10,860 in Meath.

Note that the above figures do not include people on the Community Employment, Tús or Rural Social Schemes who were also in receipt of the supplementary fuel allowance.