256. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the reason her Department does not inform persons in the years prior to their retirement age that they may fail to qualify for a pension without additional contributions, paid or voluntary; if such advanced warning will be provided in the future; the reason credited contributions and discounted years in the homemaker's scheme do not count towards or are credited when calculating the minimum 520 contributions; and her plans to allow applicants use credited contributions or receive some credits for their homemaker years in future changes to the contributory scheme. [51253/18]

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256. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the reason her Department does not inform persons in the years prior to their retirement age that they may fail to qualify for a pension without additional contributions, paid or voluntary; if such advanced warning will be provided in the future; the reason credited contributions and discounted years in the homemaker's scheme do not count towards or are credited when calculating the minimum 520 contributions; and her plans to allow applicants use credited contributions or receive some credits for their homemaker years in future changes to the contributory scheme. [51253/18]

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