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

It is very important that people who were at home caring or who had to leave the workforce get the relevant credits.

This is a separate question. It was an issue that arose some years ago and I raised it with one of the Minister's predecessors. Farmers who had been on farm assist might have had a good year, gone off farm assist and through the fault of the Department, Revenue and their accountants, they were not alerted to the fact that they needed to be putting on a stamp. The Minister would have had some of the cases in her constituency - I had them - of those people who were affected having been in receipt of farm assist. The Minister may be able to check if those issues have been addressed and get the Department to drop me a note.

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