Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand that invalidity pensions for the self-employed will be starting in December next. Can the Minister outline what the cost will be for that for a full year? What is the position on self-employed people who lose their businesses and want to claim jobseeker's benefit? The Minister indicated that he might introduce that scheme on a voluntary basis, as we have suggested. Has he given any further thought to that? Perhaps I should not have referred to the term "manifesto". The paper is about his ideas. How much are those ideas going to translate into reality?

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