Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection
Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage
1:00 pm
Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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-----is the medical assessor's opinion accepted. In some cases, it is overruled by the officer in the customer's benefit. In all cases the medical assessor's recommendation to pay is accepted, but where there is a refusal to recommend it, the deciding officer is overruled.