Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if compensation under the victim’s payment scheme paid out to persons resident in the State, as a result of the ‘troubles in the North’ is disregarded as means for the assessment of the disability allowance. [40289/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Regulations, signed in June 2022 by the Minister for Social Protection with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, provide that payments made under the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme, in accordance with the Victims’ Payments Regulations 2020 (2020 No. 103) (Northern Ireland), are disregarded in the means tests for all social assistance schemes, increases for Qualified Adults on social insurance schemes (where the Qualified Adult is in receipt of specified disregarded means), the Working Family Payment, and Supplementary Welfare Allowance payments from the Department of Social Protection, including Disability Allowance.

These regulations are set out below -

- Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payment and Control) (Amendment) (No. 9) (Income Disregard) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 291 of 2022),

- Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Calculation of Means) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 292 of 2022).

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.