Anne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail)

I will raise two issues. One relates to the partial capacity benefit. The qualifying criteria for that are illness benefit and invalidity benefit. Is thought being given to including disability allowance? If someone has a disability, he or she could have been born with a congenital condition and that condition can be mild, severe or profound. Many people on the domiciliary care allowance go straight to the disability allowance. They actually do not ever hit illness or invalidity benefit, because that is what they have been advised to do. Retrospectively going from disability to invalidity is very difficult. Has the Minister considered that? Think of the number of people on disability allowance who we are trying to get into that partial work piece. That is the missing element in this conversation.

I am back on my hobby-horse of auto-enrolment, as a former financial adviser. I have a big interest in the process of auto-enrolment. I appreciate the Minister has brought the office to Donegal. It is welcome it has gone out to the west of Ireland. It is great to see that happening. Who are our pension advisers? NAERSA is employing many people but is our pension advice being brought from the UK? My understanding is the advice is not happening in Ireland but is coming from the UK. I would like to think we would use our own advisers.