Written answers
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Departmental Data
Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether her Department monitors the employment status of those who have been granted Irish citizenship in recent years; if so, the number of adults who were granted citizenship from 2020 to date in 2025 currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24327/25]
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Social Protection does not hold data on citizenship and therefore the data requested by the Deputy is not available.
Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of non-nationals who are currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/25]
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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My Department regularly publishes data on recipients of social protection payments, including breakdowns by nationality. This data is available in open-data format, accessible through data.gov.ie and
The statistics requested by the Deputy are provided in the table below. Figures relate to 30/04/2025.
Scheme | Irish | All other Nationalities | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Jobseeker's Allowance | 70,645 | 32,033 | 102,678 |
Jobseeker's Benefit | 26,043 | 6,846 | 32,889 |
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