Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

If I have any reservations about this, it is that it does not seem to be extended to people who are self-employed or farmers.

I make a final plea. It does not necessarily all come within the Minister's remit. Some of it may be under the remit of his colleagues. Former public sector workers who left the public sector some time ago are stuck with the terms of much more frugal pension schemes. I would like to see those anomalies ironed out and a generous spirit adopted. Neither the numbers nor the amounts involved are very great. That such things are precedents and what applies in one area may have to be applied in another is always a deterrent. There are small cohorts of workers, such as telecommunications workers who possibly retired before 1984, I may not have the exact date, whose situation——