From Irish Life, queried it with the Large Cases department in Revenue and they confirmed same to me over the phone but am waiting for official responce not that it makes any difference.
Also found out that pre finance act 2011 vested PRSA's must keep a minimum balance of 120000 to provide an AMRF instead of 63500, again this was never communicated. Goal posts changed again without warning. There is going to be a lot of unhappy people out there as a result of these changes!