163. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider examining, and introducing, changes to the legislation for the contributory State pension that affect people who have substantial numbers of pay-related social insurance contributions but whose pensions are being reduced, because they may have worked in the very early stages of their life for a couple of weeks or months and there may have been many years after that when they were not paying contributions and when, perhaps, they were self employed or not in the workforce, then came back and worked extensively for many years, in some cases over 20 years, but their pension has now been reduced, solely because the yearly average is calculated by when they started work, even though there might have been a gap for many years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9022/15]

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163. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider examining, and introducing, changes to the legislation for the contributory State pension that affect people who have substantial numbers of pay-related social insurance contributions but whose pensions are being reduced, because they may have worked in the very early stages of their life for a couple of weeks or months and there may have been many years after that when they were not paying contributions and when, perhaps, they were self employed or not in the workforce, then came back and worked extensively for many years, in some cases over 20 years, but their pension has now been reduced, solely because the yearly average is calculated by when they started work, even though there might have been a gap for many years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9022/15]

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