Social Welfare Benefits
Dail Éireann — 2023-12-07
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Éamon Ó Cuív (FF), Galway West

The question relates to domiciliary care allowance and the increasing number of rejections under domiciliary care allowance based on the number of claims. The Minister of State might outline whether he is concerned that the number of rejections is increasing at a time when we know, because of an increase in the rate of autism, that the number of children that should qualify for domiciliary care allowance is unfortunately going up.

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Sitting date: 2023-12-07