Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 226: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on applications for domiciliary care allowance and carer's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [44908/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on 19th November 2010. This application together with medical reports has been forwarded to one of the Department's Medical Assessors for a medical opinion on the case. Upon receipt of this opinion a decision will issue to the customer. Currently it takes DCA section eight weeks to process an application. An application from the person in question was received in carer's benefit section on the 22nd November. The application has been approved and carer's benefit has been awarded from the 18th November 2010.