Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 396: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive a response on their invalidity pension appeal. [20107/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Payment of invalidity pension, to the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an examination by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that she was capable of work. An appeal was opened and in the context of that appeal, her case was reviewed by a second Medical Assessor who also expressed the opinion that she was capable of work.

I am informed by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that, in the light of this second medical opinion, that office decided to afford her an opportunity of setting out the complete and up to date grounds of her appeal. The person concerned has submitted additional medical evidence which has been forwarded to the Chief Medical Advisor for his opinion.