Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That does not come through there. The estimated cost of increasing public pensions, that is contributory and non-contributory, to southern rates from year one would be €450 million not €3.8 billion. That is based on the fact that there would be 390,000 pensioners moving from British pension rates to the rates that apply in the South. The top-up would cost €1,040 per pensioner for a contributory pension - that would be the 390,000 of them – and €1,664 for the non-contributory pension. There are 70,000 of those.