Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 December 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Overview of Pensions: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Robert Nicholson:

We do not have those figures to hand but the Senator's instinct is correct. Typically speaking, it is intuitive in terms of supplementary pensions coverage that the sectors where pensions coverage is highest include financial services, information technology and the sectors where earnings are higher. The sectors where coverage is lower include the retail sector, services and then by gender amongst women to a greater extent because they are typically on lower earnings from part-time work and so on. It is almost intuitive in terms of where the highest coverage is. Certainly, it is higher in particular sectors and higher by levels of income. I can get the Senator a detailed breakdown of that.

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