Dáil debates
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Other Questions
Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
10:35 am
Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source
What people fear is that the appeals process is used as a mechanism to deter them from making applications in the first place and that it is in thrall to wider public economic policy. In the case of the Government, the fact that it has a public policy on social welfare expenditure which the Minister's Fine Gael colleagues insisted on having makes it impossible to have true reform while the Government is in office.
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