Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will come back to the Deputy with those specific figures because I know where he is coming from. He wants to know exactly how many people it will impact. I do not know how many at the minute, to be honest. We made this decision that this was a fairer system because people were coming in and starting to make contributions at age 55 and getting full pensions. All they had made contributions for was ten years. Once they had contributions for ten years before they retired they got the pension. To me, it is a bit unfair that they got a full pension.