Ms Jackie Harrington:

I can confirm there has been no change to the law in this regard. As the Deputy mentioned, if people apply for a scheme and they have worked what we refer to as subsidiary employment outside their normal work and their earnings are up to €7,500 per year, I think, that reflects a subsidiary employment period that a person is entitled to jobseeker's benefit. I will review the specific case. I was not aware the Deputy had a specific case in mind so I will review that and we can see what the circumstances were. There has been no change to subsidiary employment.