Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is about people's pensions. No retired public servants were represented at the talks and they feel that has been a major disadvantage. I understand there are up 140,000 retired public servants and that the changes over the three years of this agreement will take many of them out of it. However, quite a number will still come under it. I have no interest in people who are on very high salaries being accommodated under this legislation. Section 6, Table C, provides that those in receipt of up to €34,132 will be exempt from the public service pension reduction.