My question is about the extra €200 that was to be paid to long-term social welfare recipients, including those on carer's allowance, disability allowance, the working family payment and pensions. I welcomed this, but in my office last Friday I received many phone calls from people who thought they were going to get the additional payment to deal with the cost of living but who did not receive it. I understood that everyone who got the Christmas bonus was to get this payment but many who got the Christmas bonus did not. Is there a bit of a glitch or error in the system? Will the Minister give me an update in order that I can ring these people back and explain?

I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor for raising this matter. This was a lump-sum payment of €200 on the primary payment. It was different from the Christmas bonus and the October double payment because they were both double payments. This was not a double payment. It was a lump sum of €200 paid out to 1.2 million people at a cost of more than €250 million. I suspect that the cases the Deputy has raised with me involve people on qualified adult payments. If she will send me on the specific details, I will be happy to look into them for her.