Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are currently conducting a review of the social insurance fund and hope to have that information by the third quarter of this year to feed into a change of the model. The Deputy is right that there are obviously women of a particular age who are coming to retirement age now who are not included in that homemaker's scheme and are obviously losing out on a considerable amount of money every week. We hope to move to the total contribution model as practised by other European countries, but that is going to take a while. I know that dates have been put out referring to 2020 and 2021, but we will expedite it as soon as we have the information from the third quarter report from this year.

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