{"id":642059,"date":"2026-10-01T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/642059\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:32:08","slug":"figures-show-347736-social-welfare-recipients-are-non-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/642059\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures show 347,736 social welfare recipients are non-nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent TD Carol Nolan has called for greater transparency and a fact-based discussion on migration, public spending and the long-term sustainability of public services following the release of new Government figures showing that 347,736 social welfare recipients were recorded as non-Irish nationals at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The figures, supplied by the Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary, in response to a parliamentary question from Deputy Nolan, show that of the 1.97 million people receiving at least one social protection payment, 347,736 were recorded as holding a non-Irish nationality:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent TD Carol Nolan has called for greater transparency and a fact-based discussion on migration, public spending and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,158699,61,60,272586,272587],"class_list":["post-642059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-carol-nolan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-non-nationals","tag-social-welfare-recipients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}