Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53734/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The age limit for receipt of domiciliary care allowance (DCA) is 16 years. As the child concerned reaches the age of 16 years in February 2014, DCA is no longer payable after that date. A letter issued in October 2013 advising that payment of DCA is due to end in February and that the child could apply for disability allowance in her own right.

Entitlement to carers allowance is reviewed when DCA ceases to be payable. In order to continue receiving Carer’s Allowance the person receiving care must be so incapacitated as to require full time care and attention for a period of at least twelve months.