Mary White (Fianna Fail)

------by Martin Donnellan, retired Assistant Garda Commissioner, entitled "We all too often fail to see the benefits that come with experience". Senator Feeney spoke about 5,000 people being given the choice of optional retirement in the HSE. I once again call for people to have choice and not be forced into retirement at 65 years of age. It is a denial of the human rights of older people that they do not have a choice. As I have said many times in this Chamber, in my document, A New Approach to Ageing and Ageism, I have 28 recommendations which spell out the ambitions and the way we should treat older people. I would like to read recommendation 28.