Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I never take comfort from anything like that. I just look at the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter and see what he is saying and then I want to know what the Department is doing. I will take comfort from that rather than a comparator with somewhere else. That is really the basis of our work here in addition to our own questioning.

The Comptroller and Auditor General talked about the timeliness of payments and Mr. McKeon has given us a very good account of how there are only so many weeks. I asked a parliamentary question on this. The disability allowance seems to be one area that is not matching what Mr. McKeon is telling me. Somebody on the ground who has appealed a refusal is waiting. We are being told there is a backlog. I do not see that here. Is there a backlog in appeals for disability allowance and the medical assessors?