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

To update the Deputy - I updated the House yesterday but the Deputy was not here for Oral Questions - some 79,000 people are impacted by the rate changes that were made by the Dáil in 2012. We started to write to those people last week and sent 11,000 letters. The remainder of the letters to Irish residents will be sent out this week to advise them of what will happen with regard to the review over the coming weeks. Some 8,000 people are not resident on the island of Ireland and we will write to them in December. We expect the reviews to be completed and payments to start in the first quarter of next year. The payments will be backdated to 30 March 2018 or to the person's 66th birthday, whichever came first.

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