Mr. Henry Gaynor:

There are only a small number of cases. The change came in last year. As far as I am aware, only one person was due to retire last year, and he asked to stay. We succeeded with that because we were lobbying our Deputies. We had meetings between our company, Jack O’Connor of SIPTU and Deputies Deenihan and Spring, and eventually we thrashed out a deal to the effect that two months before retirement we approach our manager, and if he agrees to keep us on he contacts the HR department, which sends us for a medical, and if we pass that we continue as we are. That happened because we were agitating for something. I think there should be legislation that is clear for everyone if the pension age must be raised. There should be no ifs and buts about it.