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

I agree, but when people leave employment and the system knows they are gone for a while, they should be positively told. I do not know the Minister’s experience but mine is that, while I find it easy to read contribution records, the date of birth is not on the new ones, which used to be very handy when somebody came in. Now you have to ask for the date of birth. On the other hand, the new layout is brilliant. It is much better. The one thing I would quibble with is the date of birth not being on it because everything relates to the date of birth.