Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This question relates to an old bugbear of mine with the number of people who fall short of the necessary contributions due to a variety of circumstances, such as women who are spouses of self-employed people, where the Department does not always allow a partnership to exist in determining the eligibility for an insurance-based pension, and where people have a shortage of contributions in any event and the number of those contributions have reduced their entitlements, if they have any at all.

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