Peadar Tóibín
Ceist:450. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the total expenditure incurred on jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [52909/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 14 July 2026
Ceisteanna (450)
Freagraí scríofa
The total annual expenditure for Jobseeker's Allowance and Jobseeker's Benefit for the years 2021-2025 is shown in the table below.
The entry for Jobseeker's Allowance includes expenditure on Jobseeker's Transition Payment, and the entry on Jobseeker's Benefit includes expenditure on Jobseeker's Benefit (Self-Employed). Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit was introduced in 2025, with expenditure of €297m. Figures are rounded to the nearest million. A ten-year series of expenditure is published in the Annual Statistics Report, available through: gov.ie/dsp/statistics
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- |
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€million |
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2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
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Jobseeker's Allowance |
1,567 |
1,641 |
1,823 |
1,853 |
1,752 |
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Jobseeker's Benefit |
336 |
486 |
448 |
515 |
413 |
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Pay-Related Jobseeker's Benefit |
- |
- |
- |
- |
297 |
Question No. 451 answered with Question No. 448.