Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 21 April 2015 the length of time, in weeks, that is considered to be a reasonably short duration; if guidance has been circulated to social welfare officers; and if so, the contents of that guidance. [16940/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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There are no defined guidelines surrounding the period of time that a disability allowance (DA) claim should take to be restored where a former DA recipient ceases employment. However the Department endeavours to make this process as timely as possible and the time taken can be dependent on a number of factors, not least the length the individual had been working and the quality of the information supplied by the applicant.

It is then a function of a statutorily appointed deciding officer to decide upon eligibility for DA. Each individual request to return to the DA scheme after employment ceases is considered by a deciding officer on an individual basis based upon all the information available to him/her.