Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion

10:20 am

Ms Mary Kennedy:

One of the items the report examined was extending other benefits to the self-employed, and the report gives costings and the level of contribution that would be required if one were to provide jobseeker's benefit or invalidity pension to self-employed people. This is as far as I can go. I cannot refer to what might happen in the future. The report is to give us information to enable the Department-----