Ms Eilís Ní Chaithnía:

The issue of pensions and the pension gender gap is the issue about which the National Women's Council is contacted most by women. The greatest number of phone calls, e-mails and letters we receive relate to the gender pension gap and we have a time responding to them. This was our rationale for looking for funding from the Community Foundation for Ireland. We have been lobbying on this for a long time. We engage with and support those women in redirecting them to other supports they might be able to utilise but we are starting to engage with individual women across Ireland and to build up their capacity to push for pension justice on an individual level and within their communities. It is an enormous issue. As I said previously, we will send our submission to the committee and this will provide it with a very rounded view of the difficulties women face.