Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is important. This is about real people with real questions. They want to know how they are affected. They are not asking what the average is or whatever. It is like telling a person to go and get a suit in the average size. It might be too long or too short if one does that. I am interested to find out how many people actually would have got it if the 40 years' contributions was deployed rather than the averaging system or the dual system now. I think there are gap year records in the context of many people's social insurance contributions.