Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the review of a Domiciliary Care Allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15710/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 3rd October 2014. This application was not allowed as the child was not considered to satisfy the qualifying conditions for the allowance. A letter issued on the 16th January 2015 outlining the decision of the deciding officer to refuse the allowance.

A review of this decision was requested on 2nd February 2015 and additional information on this child’s condition/care needs has been supplied. The application together with the new information supplied has been forwarded to a medical assessor for their professional opinion. Once this opinion is received the application will be re-examined by a deciding officer and a revised decision will be made if warranted. The person concerned will be notified of the outcome of this review as soon as it is completed. Such reviewed can take up to 12 weeks to complete at present.