Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has enough PRSI contributions to avail of a procedure. [51612/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Qualification for dental benefit is based on satisfying certain PRSI conditions; these vary depending on the age of the person concerned. The person concerned would need to have paid 260 PRSI contributions at the relevant classes, either A, E, H, P or S, since first starting work, and also have 39 contributions paid or credited in the tax year on which the claim is based. In this case, the person concerned does not qualify for dental benefit as she does not have the required number of contributions paid in the relevant classes.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.