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

I am not sure if Deputy Fleming was here but Deputy Bríd Smith brought up exactly the same question a few minutes ago. Unfortunately, the answer is exactly the same. We are waiting on an actuarial review on the Social Insurance Fund that will come back to us probably by quarter three. The model we hope to move to is a total contributions model. We will be moving towards it as quickly as we can. The expected date at present is 2020, which I accept is no solace for the amount of women that the Deputy is talking about, but if we can do it faster, we will.

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