Dáil debates
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Private Members Business. Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion (Resumed)
-- insisting that medical assessors are competent to assess the medical information submitted and are on the relevant specialist medical register (e.g. paediatrics or child psychiatry), remove the "Guide to the Normal Age of Attainment of Certain Activities" currently in use by medical assessors (as compiled by the Office for Population Censuses and Surveys study on Disability in Childhood in the United Kingdom) and ensure that all decisions on DCA applications and existing claims are made by child protection or disability social workers;
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