Robert O'Donoghue (Dublin Fingal West, Labour)
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291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will supply the number of carers allowance applications received in each years 2020 to 2024; the number of such applications that were approved on first examination; the number directed to review and changed on review; the number directed to appeal and changed on appeal; the average waiting time in each of those years for each stage of the process, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27961/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The requested statistics for 2020 - 2023 are shown below. Figures for 2024 are currently being compiled and will be published later this year. The 'Average Time to Award' is the average number of weeks between a claim being registered and the claim being awarded for successful claims.

Note that after an appeal is submitted, there are two stages to an appeal. First, the appeal goes back to the scheme area in DSP where the original decision on the claim was made, for review by a DSP officer. If the DSP officer decides to revise the decision, then the appeal is granted. If the decision is not revised, then it goes to an Appeals Officer in the Appeals Office, who can then either allow, partially allow, or disallow the appeal.

Note that the figures for decision reviews only includes reviews and it does not include decision reviews carried out outside the appeals process, as statistics for these are not maintained by the Department.