Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [41025/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Invalidity pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions.

To qualify for IP a claimant must, inter-alia, have at least 260 (5 years) paid PRSI contributions since entering social insurance and 48 contributions paid or credited in the last complete contribution year before the date of their claim. Only PRSI classes A, E or H contributions are reckonable for IP purposes.

In 2011 the department received from the person concerned a claim for IP. That claim was refused at that time on the grounds that the contribution conditions for the scheme were not satisfied.

The department has no record of any subsequent claim for IP from the person concerned.