The first double payment for pensioners, carers, job seekers, and people with disabilities will be paid in the week of 28 October, while the Christmas bonus will be paid in the week of 2 December.
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has confirmed the payment dates for the cost-of-living supports announced in the Budget.
The Finance Bill and the Social Welfare Bill, which will give effect to the measures announced in the Budget when they are passed by the Oireachtas in the coming weeks, were presented to the Cabinet.
When the bills will be enacted, and whether the legislation might be accelerated to pave the way for an election, is not yet clear, but some payment dates have now been nailed down.
The two double child benefit payments will be made on 5 November and 3 December.
On the week beginning 4 November, four payments will be issued, including the €400 Working Family Payment, the €400 Disability Support Grant and the €300 lump sum for households in receipt of the fuel allowance.
The following week, beginning on 11 November, will see a €400 lump payment issued to carers and a €200 Living Alone Allowance paid to widows, widowers and other single person households.
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The €100 lump sum for people in receipt of the Child Support Grant will be paid on the week of 25 November.
Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan was due to tell the Cabinet that the €125 energy credits will be paid from the beginning of November and again at the start of January.
Abolishing means test for carers' allowance could cost up to €2bn - Taoiseach
Taoiseach Simon Harris has told the Dáil that it could cost up to €2bn per year to abolish the means test for the carers' allowance.
He was pressed to scrap the means test by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.
She said carers did extraordinary work and while it was work done with love, it was work. She also called for the threshold increases to be applied from January rather than July.
Mr Harris said a working group was examining the means test for the carers' allowance. But he added it could cost between €600m and €2bn per year to scrap it.
He pointed to other measures announced by the Government on increasing the income disregard for carers, the increased capital disregards and the increase to the annual carers' support grant.
Govt accused of 'spin over substance' budget
Social Democrats TD Cian O'Callaghan has accused the Government of wasting the Budget in an effort to buy an election and "tinker around the edges".
"It is emblematic of this Government's approach of spin over substance."
He asked if the Taoiseach agreed with the ESRI's assessment that vulnerable people would be worse off after Budget 2025.
"It's not bribery. It's called listening to people and delivering," Mr Harris responded.
He said that it was "very easy" to make big statements, but asked what cost-of-living payments the deputy would have the Government cancel.
"I'm fed up with this sneering and scoffing," Mr Harris said, and asked TDs to email him with the payments that they think he should cancel.
He also insisted that the people of Ireland are not buying into "faux outrage" over phone pouches.
He said that "some of the faux outrage in this house has been utterly disingenuous".
Phone pouches a 'vanity project' - Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin has accused the Government of dressing up a vanity project as a mental health initiative.
The party's spokesperson on mental health, Mark Ward, asked "what planet is this Government on?" if it thinks that spending €9 million on phone pouches is good value.
Mr Ward tabled a Private Members Bill on Government spending in the Dáil this evening.
He condemned the "vanity project" which he said has been "dressed up" as a mental health initiative. It is a "kick in the teeth to parents of children" who have been let down by CAHMS, he added.
Mr Ward called on the Government to reverse the decision and spend the money on mental health services and schools instead.
Minister for Education Norma Foley defended the Government's record on spending in education.
"Which part of the education budget would you like to cut?" she asked Sinn Féin TDs.
Minister of State at the Department of Health Colm Burke said that CAHMS gets around €150m annually.
He said that the Government was committed to improving access and decreasing waiting lists.
