Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The original legislation defines unemployment payments as any payment, including crediting contributions, to a qualifying individual under the Social Welfare Acts. That wording is being amended so that unemployment benefit means a payment of jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance under the Social Welfare Acts. The amendment gets rid of crediting contributions.

Would there not be a cohort of self-employed individuals who would not be receiving a payment, as is now required, but who would have receiving crediting contributions, which will now be ineligible?