PQ 347
347. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of expanding Catherine’s Law to include receipt of the basic income for the arts among scholarships exempt from means-testing for disability allowance and the blind pension; and the analysis that has been conducted within his Department or in consultation with the Department for Culture, Communications and Sport on this since the introduction of the pilot basic income for the arts scheme. [46580/26]
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347. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of expanding Catherine’s Law to include receipt of the basic income for the arts among scholarships exempt from means-testing for disability allowance and the blind pension; and the analysis that has been conducted within his Department or in consultation with the Department for Culture, Communications and Sport on this since the introduction of the pilot basic income for the arts scheme. [46580/26]
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