Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an outstanding illness benefit payment for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51144/18]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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The Department administers the Illness Benefit scheme to those customers who cannot work because they are sick or ill provided they are covered by the appropriate class of social insurance (PRSI) and satisfy the PRSI conditions.

The person concerned does not qualify for a payment of Illness Benefit as she does not satisfy the first PRSI contribution qualifying condition which requires a person to have at least 104 weeks of PRSI contributions paid since first starting work..

Up until the end of the 2017 PRSI contribution year (31/12/2017) the person concerned only had 60 PRSI contributions paid reckonable for Illness Benefit.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.