Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications that have been made for phenylketonuria; and the number of applications that have been rejected in each of the past five years. [44284/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Details of the medical condition/decision status of individual domiciliary care allowance (DCA) applications are not routinely collated by my Department on a year by year basis.

i am advised that he medical condition referred to by the Deputy, Phenylketonuria, with an ICD10 code of E70/E70.0 was listed as a medical condition in some 90 DCA applications received since 2009, when the Department first began administering the scheme.  39 of these applications were found to be eligible on either initial decision or on appeal.

It should be noted that a child may have more than one medical condition/diagnosis and, depending on how such conditions are listed on the application form, all may not therefore be recorded. Accordingly,  more applicants with Phenylketonuria may have applied for DCA than the numbers given above. 

I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.