Domiciliary 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.