Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

----- with the way entitlement to the State contributory pension is calculated. What we are trying to do is to move towards a total contributions approach, which means that what matters most is how many contributions a person has made and not when he or she made them. That would make a big difference in favour of the group to which Deputy Bríd Smith is referring. We also want to have a decent period where we recognise absence from work for caring purposes. We need to do a huge job on this in order to figure out the options, who the winners or losers would be, what the profile of those winners and losers would be - not just in terms of gender but also other factors including region, background and so forth - as well as the cost of each potential change. We just do not have all of the necessary information yet. We literally need to go through contribution records from the 1940s and 1950s and-----