The Commission on Pensions issued its report last year and made a number of recommendations. One was a requirement for benchmarking to ensure our older people are lifted out of the poverty trap. What progress has been made to ensure our older people can live in some small comfort during their twilight years? Will the Government commit to reducing the pension age, which was increased by the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government in 2011, back to 65?

All the recommendations of the pensions commission are integrated. One cannot cherry-pick them with the ease with which the Deputy has just done. There are significant cost implications also. The report was published in October 2021. I note that in Northern Ireland, the Deputy's party supported increasing the pension age to 66, so there is somewhat of an inconsistency in Sinn Féin's approach in this House and in the North. Equally, in the North the Deputy's party recognised the challenges around pensions provision into the future. Some very serious issues fall due to be considered by the Government and the Oireachtas more generally in respect of sustainability of pensions over the next 50 years and how we make sure there is sustainability in pensions provision. The Government has taken significant decisions on, for example, auto-enrolment, which is an important complementary-----

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-----and supportive measure in addition to the State pension.