Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 381: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused supplementary welfare allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46295/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of the Department 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.

The Executive has advised that it has received an application for an exceptional needs payment from the person concerned but that no decision has been made on her application. She will be contacted directly by the Executive when a decision has been made on her entitlement to an exceptional needs payment.