John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has rightly said that in 2010 the expectation was in respect of a working life of 30 years. The reason there is concern is that in the interim arrangement for the TCA as it applies to those affected by the anomaly resulting from the change made in 2012 she is using a 40-year period. I acknowledge that she has not published the document and not brought it to the Cabinet, but, equally, she can see why there is concern in that regard. It is because of what she has done. In advance of addressing the anomalies arising from the change made in 2012 the expectation would have been that more people would benefit. Have lessons been learned that are now influencing how the new TCA will be formulated?

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