968. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, in circumstances in which persons become blind and receive illness benefit and the blind person's pension, and when the illness benefit expires, they move onto invalidity pension but they lose the blind person's pension even though they still continue to be blind; the reason the blind person's pension is payable to some blind persons and not to other blind persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7717/20]

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968. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, in circumstances in which persons become blind and receive illness benefit and the blind person's pension, and when the illness benefit expires, they move onto invalidity pension but they lose the blind person's pension even though they still continue to be blind; the reason the blind person's pension is payable to some blind persons and not to other blind persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7717/20]

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1. 27 May 2020

   Blind Person's Pension

   968. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, in circumstances in which persons become blind and receive illness benefit and the blind person's pension, and when the illness benefit expires, they move onto invalidity pension but they lose the blind person's pension even though they still continue to be blind; the reason the blind person's pension is payable to some blind persons and not to other blind persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7717/20]

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