asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will introduce regulations under the social insurance schemes to enable seasonal and share fishermen to pay insurance contributions to entitle them during periods of unemployment or disability to receive unemployment or disability benefit.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Social Insurance: Share Fishermen.
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All seasonal and share fishermen who pay employment contributions under the Social Welfare Acts in respect of their employment as fishermen are covered for disability benefit. The question of extending cover for unemployment benefit to such of them as are not already covered for this benefit is at present under consideration in my Department.
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asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will introduce regulations to ensure that in future the earnings of share fishermen will be regarded as if they had been received as wages in so far as applications for unemployment assistance are concerned, and that they will be disregarded as means.
The question as to the extent to which income derived from intermittent and seasonal employment over a comparatively small period of the year should be assessed as means for the purposes of the Unemployment Assistance Acts is at present under examination in my Department.