Mr. John McKeon:

We will get back to the Deputy with the numbers. There are just over 500,000 people who are direct recipients of the State pension. In addition, there is another group who are in receipt of a widow's pension, which bring the number up to more than 600,000. There are also people who are beneficiaries but not recipients in their own right. We will get those numbers for the Deputy. I did some other work previously in respect of a basic income analysis. The number of people who were not in receipt of payments but who would qualify on a basic income basis was somewhere north of 300,000, across the entire range of payments. That would have included payments other than pensions as well. We will revert to the Deputy on this. It is a simple sum; one subtracts the number of people who are in receipt of a pension from the number aged over 66. There are approximately 620,000 or 630,000 people in receipt of pensions. We will do the analysis for the Deputy.