Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 200: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if supplementary welfare allowance allocation for funding to meet furnishing costs will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [19559/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, 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. Eligible people would normally be in receipt of a social welfare or health service executive payment. The person concerned should contact the community welfare officer at her local health centre in order that she can have her claim for entitlements examined.