Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 8 May 2018, the estimated number of self-employed workers in question based on the latest data at the class S rate of 4% who would be eligible for the benefits (details supplied) if extended. [22475/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy is referring to the actuarial review of the social insurance fund as at 31 December 2015 and to the cost of extending certain social insurance benefits to the self-employed, an exercise that was carried out as part of the review.

It is estimated that 254,000 Class S contributors would gain entitlement to these schemes, subject to the normal qualifying criteria for each scheme. As the Deputy is aware entitlement to invalidity pension was extended to the self-employed from December 2017.