44. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 10 December 2014, the reply to which states that to qualify for a full contributory pension the person must have at least 520 paid contributions and satisfy a yearly average of 48 contributions, if where time has been taken off in certain years for maternity leave or where a person has been let go from employment due to a decline in business, resulting in a gap in weekly contributions, this will be taken into account when the person reaches pension age when calculating their pension contributions; and in the event that a person takes early retirement at the age of 53 or 54, what he or she must do to ensure they will continue to get credited up until their pension age at 66 years. [48757/14]

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44. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 10 December 2014, the reply to which states that to qualify for a full contributory pension the person must have at least 520 paid contributions and satisfy a yearly average of 48 contributions, if where time has been taken off in certain years for maternity leave or where a person has been let go from employment due to a decline in business, resulting in a gap in weekly contributions, this will be taken into account when the person reaches pension age when calculating their pension contributions; and in the event that a person takes early retirement at the age of 53 or 54, what he or she must do to ensure they will continue to get credited up until their pension age at 66 years. [48757/14]

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