Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange for an inspector to call on a person (details supplied) in county Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5558/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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As stated to the Deputy in my replies to Question No 182 on 27 January 2015 and Question No 76 on 5 February 2015, the person concerned submitted an application for One Parent Family Payment on 30 October 2014. The One Parent Family Payment scheme is subject to a means test and in order to carry out a means test a customer must be available for interview or contactable at a given address. The person concerned was recently invited for interview with a Social Welfare Inspector but failed to attend. A letter of invitation was posted to the person concerned a full week prior to her scheduled interview. The Social Welfare Inspector also tried on a number of occasions to contact the person concerned by telephone and by way of a house call but again was unable to contact her. The application was recently closed and the person concerned was notified of this decision by post. A copy of the invitation for interview and notification of the closure of the One Parent Family Payment application that were posted to the person concerned are retained on file.

The person concerned has recently submitted another One Parent Family Payment application and the Social Welfare Inspector will be in contact with her, in relation to this application, in due course.