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

I will do that. I also ask the Minister of State to take on board Deputy Ó Snodaigh's very good suggestion that the right to a review be clearly set out because people have come to me who think they must go straight to the appeals office and they are amazed to hear they can actually go back to the deciding officer to have their case looked at again. That is not clear on the form. I am glad some of the administrative changes proposed by FLAC have taken place.

While I will press the Bill, I nevertheless acknowledge the improvements that have been made. I seriously urge the Department - this is not political - from the point of view of the people we represent, on whose behalf we speak, who are the poorest section of society and who are waiting for their social welfare entitlement to be adjudicated on, to continue the improvements made and to try, if at all possible, to bring some element of certainty for those people.

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