Written answers

Thursday, 14 April 2005

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Social Welfare Appeals

5:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review his refusal of basic supplementary welfare allowance on habitual residency grounds in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11591/05]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. The executive has advised that the person concerned applied for supplementary welfare allowance after she left her direct provision accommodation at the end of December 2004. Her application was refused on the statutory grounds that she was not habitually resident in the State. She has been unsuccessful in appealing this decision to an executive appeals officer. She was informed by the executive of her right of further appeal to the social welfare appeals office, but I understand from that office that she has not done so to date.

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