Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a Department inspector will review payments under the disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who is a spina bifida patient and in financial difficulty pending an increase following the cessation of a maintenance payment from that person's estranged spouse for their now independent adult child, her Department having been notified of same on 1 May 2015. [21278/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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In order to determine the circumstances of the person concerned, her file was forwarded to her local Social Welfare Inspector. S/he will arrange to meet with the person in question as soon as possible.

A final decision on her entitlement to disability allowance will be given on receipt of the Social Welfare Inspectors report. The person in question will be notified directly of the outcome.