Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
State Pension Reform: Discussion
10:30 am
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Duggan has probably picked out the European countries with the more complicated systems. In Austria, for instance, the pension age is 65 years for men and 60 years for women and will move to 65 years for both by 2033. I have already given the example of Germany, where the pension age is moving to 67 years for men and women in 2031. There is no complicated methodology or procedure in those cases and no link to life expectancy. We are moving further and faster than any of our European counterparts.
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