Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for being late for the meeting. Is the Minister satisfied with the appeals system for grants in her Department? It is a very fine and crude instrument to have a cut-off rate for eligibility for grants. While self-employed people are able to work within the system to a greater extent, and we have to be careful how we phrase that, it is an extremely crude instrument for people who are on PAYE. I had a case recently where someone received a one-off additional payment of €800 as part of the Haddington Road agreement. It was a one-off and not to be repeated in the next year but to have that reflected adequately is extremely difficult. Does the Minister have a comment on whether the appeals system is robust enough to take genuine cases into account where these are hit very hard by being a couple of hundred euro over the limit?