Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We should acknowledge that this change is very welcome and of huge benefit to many people who made contributions and worked extremely hard for the State or caring for others throughout their career and got no recognition for that. Will those persons who made contributions in Ireland and overseas receive the same treatment as everybody else such that there would be no balancing of the situation whereby they might have a higher level from the United Kingdom? Will it be adjudged on the basis of achieving a pension of a particular amount in this jurisdiction?

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