Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for his long list of questions. I will start with the anomaly in 2012 rate changes that we fixed earlier this year. Information letters will issue in the coming weeks to 67,000 Irish residents and 9,000 non-Irish residents. The numbers are broken down as follows: requests for details of home caring periods and processing home caring period cases in respect of the application of the new T12 recalculations. We will be notifying people of their reviews that will take place once the letters have been issued. The basis of the calculation obviously is the new total contributions model with the 20 years caring credit.