Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Some people get the carer's allowance. A fair number of people, particularly if they have spouses or partners in very good jobs, do not get carer's allowance because it is means-tested but they get a one-off payment every year. My question is will they be getting a year's caring credits, allowing that they have not been paying contributions based on that payment being payable in June of every year, because that payment in June is actually for caring in June and is not for caring for the full year. How are those people going to be assessed who are not appearing in the Department's system, if that is the case, where the person one is caring for is not eligible for TCA because they are too old as they are over 60?