Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all illness and injury payment benefits to €300 per week, excluding disability-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42233/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The estimated full year cost of increasing short term Illness and Injury schemes to a €300 weekly payment is €231.2 million. This includes estimated costs for Illness Benefit of €225.2 million, Incapacity Supplement of €3.6 million and Injury Benefit of €2.4 million. It does not include any cost for longer term Illness schemes such as Invalidity Pension and Disability Allowance.

It should be noted that this cost is subject to change in the context of emerging trends and associated revision of the estimated numbers of recipients for 2024.