Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy is aware, we will launch a public consultation in November. We all want the information sought by the Deputy in his question. My Department started last week to compile the relevant information with regard to the women, in the main, and men - they are 40% of the cohort - who are particularly disadvantaged as a result of changes in bands because of their average length in working life. It will take us a couple of weeks to do this as the records before 1994 are all paper-based. We need to go through each one of them individually. I guarantee the Deputy, as I did in my speech last night, that as soon as the process is finished in a matter of weeks, I will bring this back to the Dáil. We can then discuss how to rectify the matter.

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