Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 July 2021
444. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of domiciliary care applicants who were successful in their applications when their initial refusal was reviewed in each of the years since 2017, by county. [37337/21]
View answerDomiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is administered centrally for the entire country, and as a result statistics for applications and reviews processed are not collated on a county by county basis. The available figures, which are from 2018, for successful reviews carried out by DCA section are outlined in the table below.
|
Year |
Found eligible on review by a Deciding Officer |
|
2018 |
765 |
|
2019 |
769 |
|
2020 |
724 |
|
2021 (to end of June) |
333 |
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
