Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I again thank Deputy Brady for bringing the Bill forward. Plenty of examples come to mind. One thinks of nurses forced to retire at a particular age who are then rehired by an agency to work at the same workplace so they have a pension and might be fully employed through an agency, which costs the State twice or three times what it cost previously when they wanted to continue to work in the public service. This rigid age anomaly should be lifted.

How would the process work in the public service? Who would decide? What would be the process to deal with the difficult circumstances that would arise where someone did not want to retire but there were probable grounds for them to do so? How would Deputy Brady envisage that working within the public service? How has it worked elsewhere?