Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for answering a question I did not ask. I am aware of the review in regard to domiciliary care allowance but I asked her about other health-related entitlements where the decision on medical eligibility is taken in exactly the same flawed way which the High Court condemned in its decision on 1 April. As the Minister said, a review has taken place, parents are more involved in domiciliary care allowance, forms have been redesigned, etc. However, many people have been refused domiciliary care allowance under the old system. Does the Department intend to contact those people who have been refused under the old system in recent times and advise them that the whole system has changed, that there is now a new form and that they are entitled to apply again?

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