John Paul O'Shea (Cork North-West, Fine Gael)
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920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of invalidity pension for the years 2020 to 2025, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29800/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Quarterly statistics on recipients of Invalidity Pension, including a breakdown by county, is published in open data format as part of the Department's Quarterly Statistics report which is available at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/collections/quarterly-statistics/#quarterly-statistical-open-data . These figures are set out in the table below.

John Paul O'Shea (Cork North-West, Fine Gael)
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921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of blind pension in the country for the years 2020 to 2025, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29801/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Blind Pension is a means-tested payment provided by the Department to individuals who are blind or have a serious visual impairment and are habitually resident in the State. It is available to those aged 18 to 66 and requires medical certification of visual impairment.

Due to low numbers of recipients when broken down by county, the counties of Leitrim, Longford, and Roscommon are combined into one to avoid identifying any individual recipient.