Pearse Doherty
Question:558. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 414 of 27 November 2012 and in view of additional documentation since forwarded, if he will detail what happened to a basic payment appeal lodged with and acknowledged by the HSE appeals section in July 2011 in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 that should have been transferred to the Department of Social Protection when responsibility for such payments and related appeals was assumed by that Department this year; if the documentation relating to this appeal was lost by the HSE appeals office, by the Social Protection appeals office or when being transferred between the two; if he will further detail the systems in place to ensure that all such basic payment claims and related appeals being handled by HSE community welfare officers and the HSE appeals office were successfully transferred to the relevant staff in his Department; if he will ensure that no claims or appeals were lost in the transfer of responsibility of these issues from the HSE to the Department of Social Protection; if he will further detail what redress a person would have if their claim or appeal was lost either by the HSE appeals office, the Department of Social Protection appeals office or in transfer between the two when the Department was assuming responsibility for such claims and appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54141/12]
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