Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is aware that there is a cohort of people who have reached, or who are about to reach, pension age who were paying the insurance contribution towards a contributory pension. Their insurance record was broken when they availed of the farm assist scheme. Will the Minister assure me that the plight of those people will be considered in the consultation process that is under way, or which may be well advanced, in the calculation of entitlements to contributory pensions?

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