Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 July 2021
463. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications in County Cork in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 respectively; and the number of these that were refused. [37774/21]
View answerDomiciliary Care Allowance is administered centrally for the whole country. Information is not routinely collated on a county basis and therefore no specific figures for applications from county Cork are available. The number of all applications received and the number of those refused following initial application for the years in question is detailed in the table below.
|
Year |
Number of DCA Applications |
Refused on initial application |
|
2019 |
8,719 |
2,875 |
|
2020 |
7,289 |
2,639 |
|
2021 (to end of June) |
4,798 |
1,241 |
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
