Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Obviously I do not have any figures for 2023, but as the Minister of State said, the number of claims registered in 2022 was 10,524. The number of claims rejected in that year was 3,948. I rounded the figures and that is just short of 40%. That seems to me to be a very high level of refusal. I am bit surprised to hear the Minister of State say that claims that were changed on review are still registered as being rejected. I would have thought that the record would have been correct. Similarly, I would have thought that on appeal the Department would have corrected the record. It is a very high number. As I said, one would expect the number of claims to increase because, as I am told by disability organisations, the number of people requiring services is going up. In a number of cases recently, I have been absolutely stunned to learn that the Department has not agreed that the child in question needs care and attention way over and above what a normal child would need.

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