I will speak about a promised report in legislation. When the Social Welfare Bill was passed last year, Deputy Bríd Smith had sought an amendment seeking a report on the inequalities faced by pensioners, which we have discussed this week. That affects 35,000 pensioners who are being robbed of a full pension entitlement. At the time, the current Taoiseach and then Minister, Deputy Varadkar, included an amendment indicating a report on those anomalies would be done within six months. Deputy Smith had sought three months as the timeframe. We are well past the period stipulated in last year's Bill but we still have procrastination from the Government. There are many excuses about how complicated it is but where is the report? When will we get it? This has gone on and on while tens of thousands of pensioners are being robbed of their full pension entitlement because of a failure by the Government to honour the promise.

We have had this conversation about the report before and we might be speaking at cross-purposes. The report agreed to by the then Minister for Social Protection was around a proposal to move to a calculation approach taking in total contributions.

Where is it?

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.