Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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69. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for dental benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49412/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Treatment benefit is a PRSI based scheme. A person under the age of 21 may qualify if they have at least 39 reckonable contributions paid since first starting work. PRSI Classes A, E, H and P are reckonable for treatment benefit qualification.

Records currently available indicate that the person concerned has no PRSI contributions recorded up to the end of 2013.

The person concerned may qualify based on his 2014 employment, if he has 39 reckonable contributions paid since 1 January 2014. If this is the case, he should submit an application form (available from his dentist) together with a statement from his employer detailing the PRSI contributions (class and number) paid in respect of his employment in 2014. A decision on entitlement will be made on receipt of this documentation.