Dr. Nat O'Connor:

I have one quick point on the information officers. It is important to bear in mind that many people have come from the EU and outside it to make Ireland their home. In the next ten to 15 years we are going to see a great number of people reach retirement age who are either EU workers or non-EU ones who have made Ireland their home and who are here, so it will be very important to have the information available to them about how our system works. Many of them will have come here to work and will not have been using social protection, so it will be their first engagement with the social protection system. They may also fall foul of some eligibility and means test rules, especially those who came here in the middle of their working career and did not build up the full entitlement. Information will again be really important to that rapidly-growing cohort of older person.