Written answers
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Social Welfare Appeals
2:30 pm
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 182: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for disability allowance will be heard in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [4544/11]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 07 July 2010. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 26 October 2010 and the appeal will be referred to an Appeals Officer in due course, who will decide whether the case can be decided on a summary basis or whether to list it for oral hearing.
The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social welfare entitlements.
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