Mr. Fergus Whelan:

It is a little dated because it is five years old but we did a lot of work on patterns of ill-health among building workers. Very few active building workers are still employed at 65 years. Generally, people get out of the game as they go into middle age but some do not. For the small number who do not find another way of making a living, they expect to get the pension they paid for at 65 years of age. Any scaffolder of my age will not get the pension until he is 67 years, which is a gross injustice.