42. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that a person (details supplied) and several other recipients of the carer's allowance in County Wexford did not receive their weekly payment recently due to a glitch in the system; her views that it is appropriate that the choice they were given is to either wait a week for a repayment or to travel, at their own expense, to the local community welfare office, which for some is a round trip of up to 35 kilometres; if her Department plans any remedial action in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38519/15]

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42. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that a person (details supplied) and several other recipients of the carer's allowance in County Wexford did not receive their weekly payment recently due to a glitch in the system; her views that it is appropriate that the choice they were given is to either wait a week for a repayment or to travel, at their own expense, to the local community welfare office, which for some is a round trip of up to 35 kilometres; if her Department plans any remedial action in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38519/15]

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1. 4 November 2015

   Carer's Allowance Payments

   42. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that a person (details supplied) and several other recipients of the carer's allowance in County Wexford did not receive their weekly payment recently due to a glitch in the system; her views that it is appropriate that the choice they were given is to either wait a week for a repayment or to travel, at their own expense, to the local community welfare office, which for some is a round trip of up to 35 kilometres; if her Department plans any remedial action in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38519/15]

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