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

We hit Covid-19 and now we have the boom time again. I think that leaving out the 2000-07 period skews it a bit. The other interesting thing was that the report of the Commission on Pensions recommended that the Exchequer should top up the Social Insurance Fund structurally, even if we went for a pension age of 68. There is very little difference between 66 and 68 in reality.

It is interesting that the commission, even at that stage, was factoring in that there would be a State supplement of the contributory system in the country. I will pull out this page.