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Irish Independent
12-07-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
Your money questions: Will contributions paid in the past in the UK help me get a full Irish pension?
Q I am turning 66 this November. I applied for a state pension a few weeks ago, and received a decision last week saying I'm 30 paid contributions short of 10 years and I don't qualify. I have 490 Irish PRSI paid contributions, 46 credited contributions and 966 long-term carers' contributions. I paid UK National Insurance from December 1989 to August 1995. The Department of Social Protection has told me they are applying to the UK to see about transferring my NI contributions. They also said that my home caring contributions wouldn't be added, which I find hard to understand. Any advice?
BBC News
20-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Kainos boss says he regrets redundancies at IT firm
The boss of Northern Ireland's largest IT business says he "deeply regrets" the 190 redundancies the firm made earlier this Mooney was speaking as Kainos announced its annual pre-tax profit had fallen by 15% from £77m to £ included £8.4m of one-off restructuring costs related to the job losses should save the firm about £19m a year of which about two thirds will be invested in growth areas like AI. The remainder will be allocated to staff-related cost increases, including pay rises and higher UK National Insurance Mooney said the weaker performance of the business last year partly reflected a pause on government spending decisions around the time of last year's general UK public sector is the firm's single biggest market."It caught us by surprise," he said of the election reflects the expectation that the last prime minister would wait until the end of 2024 rather than holding the election in the summer."The whole of the second half of last year was basically very slow for the public sector, and no real decision making," he Mooney said things had since picked up but the June spending review would be key for understanding government intentions to spend on digital services over the next few years. Kainos also saw a significant fall in its commercial sector revenues last year which Mr Mooney said is being addressed with new approach which included bidding for "smaller more agile engagements" rather than relying on larger contracts from a few big major bright spot in the company's performance was its Workday products is a suite of financial management and HR software. Kainos helps companies deploy and manage Workday, as well as creating its own Workday-compatible products.
