Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister realise that many of these missionaries spent 40 or 50 years out of the country, often spending their working lives in tropical countries and that they wish to remain abroad? Given that they would qualify if they returned home, is it not possible to work out a formula based on the total number of such people? Can that be done as a matter of urgency? It is not impossible to retrieve that information and the expense would not be great if the people in question could be isolated.

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