Paraic Brady (Fine Gael)

I thank Mr. Moran for his presentation. It is clear that a small number of people fell between a rock and a hard place, which is very unfortunate. The wording in the legislation is important. Perhaps that wording can be changed to sort this out. Mr. Moran is correct in that it only affects a very small number of people.

If we were to take anything out of today, it is that we are here to make changes for the good. If this does anything, it shows that we have moved on as a society and that we can put our hands up and say that we might have made mistakes in the past whereby we did not recognise what we should have and that this needs to be rectified. This committee should keep that in mind, and I am sure we will. The period of 36 months is neither here nor there. It is about doing the right thing, and that is where we have to be. We are to be fair to ourselves and to the people who worked in the Civil Service and paid into the pension scheme. That is the right formula we need to use. I thank everyone for their contributions.