45. Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider addressing the unfairness of the situation where a woman worked in the 1960s, before she had a family, left to raise her family, subsequently returned to work and now, when she comes to pension age, her reckonable contributions are taken as from the 1960s up to the present, which means her average contributions work out at very little per year, when spread over that period, and this results in her getting less of a State pension - contributory; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17241/15]

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45. Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider addressing the unfairness of the situation where a woman worked in the 1960s, before she had a family, left to raise her family, subsequently returned to work and now, when she comes to pension age, her reckonable contributions are taken as from the 1960s up to the present, which means her average contributions work out at very little per year, when spread over that period, and this results in her getting less of a State pension - contributory; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17241/15]

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