Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----by 2020 when we will introduce the new total contributions approach. Under that approach, it will not matter when a person made his or her contributions. Gaps will not matter. What will matter will be the number of contributions made over the period of someone's working life, namely, in the 50 years between the ages of 16 and 66. There will be generous provision to disregard periods of home caring. We are looking at some interim measures but the social welfare Bill, which was approved by Cabinet today, will implement the measures announced in the budget. It will not implement any of those interim measures because we do not yet have costing proposals to do so. We may not have these quite some time.

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