Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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1860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of carers in receipt of the carer's support grant; providing a breakdown of the number eligible due to receiving the carer's allowance, carer's benefit, the domiciliary care allowance and all others, in tabular form. [43648/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Carer’s Support Grant is paid to carers once a year by the Department of Social Protection.

The Carer’s Support Grant is paid automatically to people getting Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit

or Domiciliary Care Allowance, and a grant is paid for each person being cared for. But even without those qualifying payments it is still possible to be eligible for the Carer’s Support Grant.

Note that it is possible to be in receipt of more than one qualifying payment, such as Carer’s Allowance or Benefit and Domiciliary Care Allowance.

Table 1 - Carer's Support Grant paid in June 2025, by eligible scheme