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Limerick TD calls for speedy remedy to pensioners’ plight

By Bernie English

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January 14, 2018

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willie o dea — Willie O'Dea TD

LIMERICK Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea has called on Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty to speed up a remedy for pensioners who are on reduced payments because they took time out of the workforce.

The issue mainly concerns women who left paid employment to raise children and particularly those affected by the marriage ban.

Deputy O’Dea has said the numbers involved were continuing to grow and that some pensioners were dying without receiving a timely remedy.

“We are dealing with pensioners here. They do not necessarily have years and years to wait,” he said.

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Bernie English has been working as a journalist in national and local media for more than thirty years. She worked as a staff journalist with the Irish Press and Evening Press before moving to Clare. She has worked as a freelance for all of the national newspaper titles and a staff journalist in Limerick, helping to launch the Limerick edition of The Evening Echo. Bernie was involved in the launch of The Clare People where she was responsible for business and industry news.

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