Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion

6:30 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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That is what I would have thought. I was looking at the statistics. If I take everybody over 66 out, there are approximately 30,000. That is for contributory; with non-contributory they would be entitled to something else. The number of widows and widowers is not enormous up to the mid-60s, based on the statistics. I did a quick tot on them.