James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 16 February and No. 598 of 25 February 2025, given it is possible to track journeys of individual applications, if a research sampling exercise can be undertaken to provide an answer, under each specified sub-category reflective of that research sampling, to the original question asked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9284/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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It is not considered feasible to conduct the research sampling exercise suggested by the Deputy. Even just to examine the number of DCA appeal decisions in one month, my officials would need to review over one hundred individual cases to get a representative sample with a 5% margin of error.

However, my Department’s Statistics Unit is working with the Social Welfare Appeals Office to produce improved statistics on the processing times for appeals, including the processing time between each distinct appeal stage.

I hope this clarifies the position for the Deputy.