Social Welfare Code
Dail Éireann — 2024-09-24
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

I will bring forward the proposed legislation as soon as I possibly can. Under the draft legislation, it is proposed that a person who becomes eligible for the scheme will be able to claim irrespective of the date of the death of their partner. It is also proposed that claims will be backdated to the date of the judgment of January 2024 when the existing law was found to be inconsistent with the Constitution, where the date of death preceded that date.
The Deputy asked a few other questions. I just do not have the information on the exact details, but I will ask my officials to engage with Treoir to cover off some of those things to make sure we get it right. It is quite complex, given all the different scenarios.

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Sitting date: 2024-09-24