John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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720. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the payment of benefit to a person (details supplied). [25213/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The client exhausted his Jobseeker’s Benefit on 21/06/2016 and applied for Jobseeker’s Allowance which is a means-tested payment. A meeting with a Social Welfare Inspector is required to complete the means report to process this payment. Because the client had been working casually, he was unavailable to attend a number of appointments made with him by the Inspector.

The client has now returned to full-time work. As he has no mobile phone number, the Inspector wrote to him on 1 September 2016 requesting that he contact her to make an appointment outside of working hours. He has not to date responded to this communication.