Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 331: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be allocated assistance under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. [29293/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is determined by the Executive based on the particular circumstances of the case. Eligible people would normally be in receipt of a social welfare or health service executive payment.

The local Community Welfare Office (CWO) of the Southern Area of the Executive has advised that they do not have an application from the person concerned for an exceptional needs payment.