Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will accept a new application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31465/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Disability Allowance is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under age 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and is subject a medical examination, means test and a habitual residency test.

If the person concerned believes that she satisfies the above conditions for receipt of a disability allowance payment, then it is open to her apply for it.

A disability allowance application form and information booklet has been posted directly to the person concerned today. She should complete and return this form in the freepost envelope provided, upon receipt of which, her entitlement will be examined and a decision will be made. It will assist the Department to make its decision if full, comprehensive and up-to-date evidence in support of her claim is supplied by the person in question and her treating physician at the outset.