Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 690: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal in respect of an application for domiciliary care allowance will be heard in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [48505/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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In the case in question an application for Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) was received on the 20th October 2009. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for DCA. A letter issued to the person concerned on the 25th November 2009 advising her of the decision to refuse DCA. She subsequently lodged an appeal against this decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office informed her on the 7th December 2010 that the appeal had been disallowed.

The decision/appeal process for this application is now complete. All the information available at that time was provided to the appeals officer before the appeal was considered. However, if the person concerned has additional information which was not made available to the deciding officer and appeals officer when they made their decision, it is open to her to re-apply.