Mr. Fergus Courtney:

We have estimated the number of people involved at about 20. We did a detailed costing based on FOI requests, mainly to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Most of those affected by this particular anomaly are public servants - there are 300,000 public servants - and one or two are in private schemes. It tends to be a public service problem. I would be seriously surprised if any more than 20 people are affected because it involves older people and their opportunity to marry immediately after the referendum. Not that many people are affected.