Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for her clear answer. She has made the point well. Since the introduction of the changes the Minister and others in the Department have made on the class S contributions being applicable to the invalidity pension, how many self-employed people have benefited and been able to get the invalidity pension? The difficulty for self-employed people is there is no mechanism for them to secure the job if they have a permanent illness. It might be interesting for us to have the figures on how many people qualified for the invalidity pension from the S class contributions since the changes were made by the Minister and others in the Department.

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