Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 September 2026
496. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the total gross annual Exchequer expenditure on social welfare payments in each of the past ten calendar years; the expenditure attributable to each social welfare scheme, including pensions, working-age income supports, disability payments, illness-related payments, family supports, carers' payments, child-related payments, and supplementary welfare schemes, in tabular form. [68106/26]
View answerExpenditure from my Department is financed from both Voted Expenditure and from the Social Insurance Fund. Detailed scheme-by-scheme expenditure is set out in the Appropriation Accounts and in the Social Insurance Fund Accounts.
My Department also publishes a comprehensive statistical report, which includes details on recipients and beneficiaries, and on expenditure. The 2025 Annual Statistics Report was published in July this year, and it is available, along with historical reports, through gov.ie/dsp/statistics. Table A1 of the report sets out expenditure across both the Vote and the Social Insurance Fund over the past ten years, grouped by the particular programme the expenditure refers to. Ten years worth of data in respect of each individual scheme is also set out in the report, across the various sub-sections of the report. Detailed expenditure is always the first table in each sub-section. The Deputy should note that the 2025 figures should be considered provisional until both sets of Accounts have been published.
