Social Welfare Payments
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-09
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I will continue where I left off because the question is on the same topic. I will further elaborate the problem. The Minister is saying that community welfare officers, CWOs, are there and people can get appointments. I am telling her that is not the experience that is being relayed to us. That is not happening. In the old days, people could go down to the CWO without any prior notice and queue up to see them. They cannot do that now. We need to go back to face to face.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-09