Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy is absolutely right. If we did not have the contribution of people who are coming to this country and working and contributing to our Social Insurance Fund,

we would not have huge surpluses we have today. There are 500,000 working immigrants who are paying PRSI. I had a figure at one stage but I believe they have contributed €1.6 billion or €2 billion to the Social Insurance Fund. I will have to come back to the Deputy on that but it was a substantial amount when-----