David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses also highlighted the fact that people are living longer now. Women are living 23 years and men are living 20 years beyond the so-called retirement age, as we mentioned earlier. A woman down my way, who was the oldest woman in Ireland, recently died at the age of 110. People are being born now who could live to 120 or 130.