Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer's allowance, including half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer's allowance due to means; and the breakdown of these rates by the number of person's receiving a carer's allowance payment under €100, between €100 and €150; between €150 and €200 and between €200 and €220, in tabular form. [56425/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Carer’s Allowance is a payment to people on low incomes who are caring full-time for a person who needs support because of age, disability or illness (including mental illness).  The person being cared for must require full-time care and attention. 

At the end of October 2022, there were 91,892 recipients of Carer's Allowance.  Of these, 42,136 were recipients of half-rate Carer's Allowance.

Based on their most recent payment, the breakdown of Carer's Allowance rates of payment is shown in Table 1 as follows.

Table 1: Rates of payment for Carer's Allowance recipients as at end October 2022.

Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the total number of carers in receipt of carer's benefit and half-rate carer's allowance. [56426/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Carer’s Benefit is a payment made to insured people who may be required to leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a person(s) in need of full-time care.

Carer’s Allowance is a payment to people on low incomes who are caring full-time for a person who needs support because of age, disability or illness (including mental illness).  The person being cared for must require full-time care and attention.  If a person is getting certain social welfare payments and they are providing full-time care and attention to another person, they can keep your main social welfare payment and get a half-rate Carer’s Allowance as well.

At the end of October 2022, there were 3,423 recipients of Carer's Benefit and 42,136 recipients of half-rate Carer's Allowance.

Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the total number of carers who received the carer's support grant to date in 2022; of these, the number of carers who receive the carer's support grant as a stand-alone payment, that is they do not receive carer's allowance, carer's benefit or DCA; and the number of carers who receive the carer's support grant annually, through applications made throughout 2022, in tabular form. [56427/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment made to carers who get Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance.  It can also be paid to certain other carers providing full-time care.

As at the end of October there were 123,837 Carer's Support Grant’s in payment, 4,894 of whom were not in receipt of Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance.  There were 4,610 applications for the stand-alone Carer’s Support Grant received up to the end October 2022.