Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Draft Regulations on the Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Discussion
Mr. John McKeon:
The Deputy raised a couple of issues and I will take them in order. I know the last issue is the one of most concern to him and I will go back to it.
On the invalidity pension issue and the requirement to be unfit for any type of work, there are two things. First, the Deputy gave an example of how the person who left school early cannot be a rocket scientist. That is not the case. The question, for example, is if you were doing physical work and got an ailment that makes you unable to continue doing that physical work but you were well capable or doing office or another type of work such as retail, you should be taking that work. That is what the law says and what we have to apply.
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