Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a carer's allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20036/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.

The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 20 December 2022. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection.

These papers were received on 17 February 2023 and the case was assigned to an Appeals Officer on 28 March 2023. However, the Social Welfare Appeals Office were advised by the Department on 27 April 2023 that the decision under appeal has been revised and as a result the appeal has now been withdrawn.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.