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- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with it. We accepted more applications.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That is a bogus argument.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Is the Minister making the case that because more people apply, that is a justification for the percentage of success dropping? Is it acceptable that because more people apply, the number of refusals increases? That is what she seems to be saying.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I have heard this several times.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister is going back again.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister would not have what it takes to make me cross.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I find it extraordinary. This system has been in place for many years and people are suddenly starting to produce inadequate applications. When did this start? The Minister stated that in the last year of the previous Government - 2010 - there was a jump in refusals. Her letter dated 23 August states that in 2010, some 21,409 applications were received. The number of applications...
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I can read.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Not according to the Minister's letter. I will cite it again.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That is incorrect.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: No, that is a lie. That is incorrect.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Yes.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: No, the fall was in 2011.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister undertake to publish the advisory group's report on the disability and domiciliary care allowances when she receives it? In a reply to me, dated 23 August 2012, the Minister gave me statistics on the disability allowance. In 2009, there were 20,794 applications received and the number disallowed was 9,677, indicating a success rate of 55% or refusal rate of 45%. In 2010,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: May I ask a brief question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government also leaks the reports.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: We also presided over increases.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Just like the Minister has forgotten her promises.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister was reprehensible in her approach in that she supported nothing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister supported more expenditure and less tax.