Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012
12:15 pm
Áine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The issue with domiciliary care, as I understand it, is that it was transferred to the Department in 2009 from the HSE. There is a 60% refusal rate, 60% of the appeals are being accepted but the process is long and cumbersome and applicants can be waiting up to nine or 12 months.