Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I gave an example last week of a floor-layer I know. I did not quite get it right in the Chamber last week but I was talking to him about the details again. He does a full week's work and he has to take the first two or three days off the following week. He is just not able for two solid weeks in a row and he is 63 so he still has a good bit to go as things stand. If the Minister is looking at that then I welcome that and would be happy to engage with it. If people are in a position to continue working they should do so and whatever incentives and measures need to be put in place to advance that should be looked at. Straight line increases, when they were first proposed, were a mistake, particularly for people like that. I am glad that has been reversed but people at 65 are still at that tipping point. That is the purpose of the amendment.