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Social Welfare Benefits

127 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is 13 years old or over and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23961/10]

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128 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is ten years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23962/10]

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129 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is nine years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23963/10]

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130 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is eight years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23964/10]

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131 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is seven years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23965/10]

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132 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is six years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23966/10]

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133 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is five years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23967/10]

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134 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is four years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23968/10]

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135 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is three years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23969/10]

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136 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is two years old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23970/10]

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137 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is one year old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23971/10]

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138 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is under one year old and currently in receipt of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23972/10]

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139 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the savings he has calculated that will be made from the proposed change to the one-parent family payment of the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form. [23973/10]

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142 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is two years old and currently in receipt of one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24029/10]

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143 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families where the youngest child is 11 years old and currently in receipt of one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24030/10]

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Éamon Ó Cuív Minister for Social Protection Fianna Fáil

I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 to 139, inclusive, 142 and 143 together.

The details of the number of recipients of the One-Parent Family Payment (OFP) by the age of their youngest child as at September 2009 (the most recent data available) is set out in the table.

The estimated savings that will arise from the implementation of the proposed changes to the One-Parent Family Payment will arise mainly in the long-term.

The details of these savings are as follows:

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