Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide a breakdown per county of the current waiting times for domiciliary care allowance applications; the number of applicants per county that have been denied their application under the scheme in the past 12 months; the number of applicants per county per month; the number of appeals that are submitted per month; the number of appeals that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11051/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that statistics on applications for Domiciliary Care Allowance are not collated on a county by county basis and therefore, I am not in a position to supply the information as sought by the Deputy. The information that is collated is provided in the table.

Table 1. Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications

The current processing time for a domiciliary care allowance application is approximately 13 weeks. The current average processing time for domiciliary care allowance appeals determined following an oral hearing is 28.5 weeks and 22.7 weeks for such appeals determined summarily. The corresponding appeals processing times in 2015 were 28.7 weeks and 21.7 weeks respectively. Statistics in regard to appeals and their outcomes are detailed in the table.

Table 2. Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals