Written answers

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Social Welfare Schemes

Photo of Michael McNamaraMichael McNamara (Clare, Independent)
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210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the carer's allowance, half-rate carer's allowance, carer's benefit, carer's support grant and the domiciliary care allowance, per county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48706/22]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is included in the attached tabular statement, and refers to current recipients of Full-rate Carer's Allowance, Half-rate Carer's Allowance, Carer's Support Grant, Carer's Benefit and Domiciliary Care Allowance as of September 30th 2022.

County Full-rate Carer's Allowance Half-rate Carer's Allowance Carer's Support Grant Carer's Benefit Domiciliary Care Allowance
Carlow 826 695 1,888 32 733
Cavan 894 643 2,009 64 757
Clare 1,256 1,057 3,116 73 1,141
Cork 5,248 4,888 14,724 438 6,785
Donegal 2,570 1,763 5,162 103 1,424
Dublin 9,900 9,765 27,272 601 12,155
Galway 2,852 1,857 6,268 195 2,210
Kerry 1,929 1,314 4,283 157 1,475
Kildare 1,948 1,489 4,935 140 2,286
Kilkenny 1,029 815 2,477 59 938
Laois 1,075 837 2,509 64 1,142
Leitrim 419 348 977 37 279
Limerick 2,621 2,384 6,479 136 2,517
Longford 612 583 1,441 28 479
Louth 1,513 1,282 3,632 102 1,398
Mayo 1,681 1,277 3,786 131 1,085
Meath 1,633 1,227 4,360 153 2,153
Monaghan 689 465 1,491 38 532
Offaly 1,245 966 2,770 55 1,082
Roscommon 923 687 2,102 72 692
Sligo 738 622 1,770 63 557
Tipperary 2,223 1,976 5,349 140 1,882
Waterford 1,295 1,180 3,111 86 1,070
Westmeath 1,220 952 2,786 80 1,141
Wexford 2,116 1,848 4,884 112 1,685
Wicklow 1,341 1,093 3,402 77 1,463
Unknown 33 4 154 95 62
Total 49,829 42,017 123,137 3,331 49,123

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