238 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will have investigations made into the way a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was refused jobseeker’s allowance several times on foot of an anonymous report supposedly in September 2010 when no investigation of such a report was carried out as required prior to or since their payment being stopped; if it is contrary to the guidelines issued to deciding officers by her which states that natural justice requires that the claimant be afforded an opportunity of challenging and confronting the person concerned and that information given in confidence in letters containing allegations of abuse should not be available to the deciding officer when making a decision, the decision would be invalid under the rules of natural justice if the deciding officer or appeals officer was, or might appear to have been, influenced by information that was not disclosed to the claimant and which the claimant had no opportunity to rebut. [17086/11]

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238 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will have investigations made into the way a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was refused jobseeker’s allowance several times on foot of an anonymous report supposedly in September 2010 when no investigation of such a report was carried out as required prior to or since their payment being stopped; if it is contrary to the guidelines issued to deciding officers by her which states that natural justice requires that the claimant be afforded an opportunity of challenging and confronting the person concerned and that information given in confidence in letters containing allegations of abuse should not be available to the deciding officer when making a decision, the decision would be invalid under the rules of natural justice if the deciding officer or appeals officer was, or might appear to have been, influenced by information that was not disclosed to the claimant and which the claimant had no opportunity to rebut. [17086/11]

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