Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Obviously to qualify for an illness payment, quite apart from whether it is means assessed or the issues in relation to accessing the payment, there is a whole medical eligibility. A deciding officer has to make a decision at a point in time based on the evidence available. Often when one comes to the review process those circumstances may have changed.
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