Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person transfers from invalidity pension to partial capacity in order to take-up casual employment, the flexibilities there are in terms of payment of weeks in which little or no working hours have been secured. [46360/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a social welfare scheme which allows a person to return to work or self-employment (if they have reduced capacity to work) and continue to receive a payment from the Department.

PCB does not currently have the flexibility to uplift payments in a week where little or no work has been available to the customer. However, the scheme is entirely voluntary and a customer is entitled to withdraw their PCB claim at any time and return to their previous entitlement under the Illness Benefit or Invalidity Pension Schemes.

If the Deputy has a particular case in mind, he should bring it to my Department's attention and my officials will investigate it further.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.