Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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811. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications; the number of refusals on first application; the number of appeals; the number of requests for review; the number of successful and unsuccessful appeals and reviews respectively, for each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27617/23]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Domiciliary Care Allowance is a monthly payment for a child with a severe disability. The payment is not based on the type of disability. It is based on the impact of the disability.

The number of claims registered and claims rejected for Domiciliary Care Allowance in each of the last ten years are shown in Table 1 below. The number of appeals for Domiciliary Care Allowance in each of the last ten years are shown in Table 2 below. My Department does not hold statistics on the number of requests for review.

Table 1: Domiciliary Care Allowance claims registered and rejected, by year

Table 2: Domiciliary Care Allowance appeals, by year