Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance application will be dealt with in view of the conflicting information provided by Department officials each time the applicant makes contact with the carer's allowance section; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16874/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 22nd December 2014. Some additional information in relation to the person’s employment outside the home was required and was requested by the deciding officer.

The application has been disallowed on two grounds, firstly that the care recipient is not so disabled as to require full-time care and attention for more than 12 months as prescribed in regulations and, secondly, that the applicant is working outside the home for more than 15 hours a week. The person in question was notified on 24 April 2015 of this decision, the reasons for it and of her right of review and appeal.