Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15448/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance for people with a disability aged between 16 and 66 with a disability expected to last for at least one year and who satisfy the medical condition, means test and are habitually resident in Ireland.

The number of persons in receipt of DA at the end of February 2023 was just over 158,000.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.