Mr. Tony O'Brien:

By its nature, a random review must be random. The only persons we seek to exclude are those subject to a targeted review. The only people subject to a targeted review are the over-70s where there has been a specific change in the eligibility criteria. There are approximately 350,000 persons in the over-70 age group, but because of the spousal issue the overall cohort is 376,000. Rather than seek to review all of these or even half of them, the information link with both Revenue and the Department of Social Protection was used to identify those who should be reviewed. Therefore, there are 65,000 in that category to be reviewed.