Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of weeks persons are waiting for a decision to be made for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4086/18]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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The current average processing time for disability allowance (DA) application is 12 weeks.

The processing time for individual DA claims may vary in accordance with their relative complexity in terms of the three main qualifying criteria, the person’s circumstances and the information they provide in support of their claim.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.