Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1055: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to an application for supplementary welfare allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30034/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on behalf of my Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Neither I nor my Department has any function in relation to decisions on individual claims.

Section 190(1) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 provides that people in full-time education are not normally eligible to receive assistance, including basic supplementary welfare allowance, under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme.

The Executive has advised that it refused a claim for basic supplementary welfare allowance on the basis that the person concerned is a full-time student. She has appealed this decision to an appeals officer in the Executive, who will make a determination on her eligibility and notify her of the outcome as soon as possible.