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

My second question is, do we know in the last year or two years how many people are better off on TCA versus the averaging system? In other words, everyone goes in and the calculations are done for them and the years spent caring for children are taken into account in one system and are not in the other system. It is all put in a mixing bowl and an answer comes out. Then we either go for TCA at the moment or averaging. Do we have any idea how many people at the moment are relying on averaging? It has nothing to do with the self-employed per se but because of the way life works.