Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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It is not the agent. This is not something Revenue came up with. The section in the legislation specifically states that people will receive an automatic receipt from employers or the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, but the Department of Social Protection is excluded from that section. It is included in the other section setting out where these payments can be made through but it is specifically omitted from the section relating to the receipt. Ms O'Donoghue just told me that most of these people are on State pensions. They are old age pensioners aged between 70, 80 and 90. Ms O'Donoghue has said that they are people on blind pensions. The Department is an agent but it is coming through it. The employer is an agent for Revenue but it is obliged to give a receipt.