Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Chairman, may I say that this is one of the most significant sections in terms of modern accounting and business. In the Bill we are changing what is happening and moving from one set of standards to another, the fact is that because of the devastation that these changes have wrought to lots of people's jobs and pensions in this and other countries, I am simply asking if it possible to get a sense of the Minister's policy point of view, and where he stands on the retention of private pensions systems.