Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection

2:10 pm

Ms Geraldine Gleeson:

As I said, to try to deal with this, the assistant secretary who is in charge of all the medical schemes, the chief medical officer and I meet on a regular basis. There is close liaison to identify where the road blocks are, why they are happening and whether there is anything we can do to speed up the process. That is why I say there were improvements resulting from that interaction.