Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the weekly payment rate for the carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit to €325 per week; and if she will provide this information in tabular form by payment. [36496/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The estimated full year cost of increasing the weekly payment rate for Carer’s Allowance and Carer’s Benefit to €325 per week is shown in the table below.

These costings are based on the estimated number of recipients in 2022 and are subject to change in the context of emerging trends and associated revision of the estimated numbers of recipients.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.