Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Robert Nicholson:

Yes, and it will. We have run actuarial calculations. By their nature, actuarial calculations are assumptions in terms of inflation, investment return and so on. However, based on actuarial standards, we have run calculations. With the average earnings of €38,000, the State pension provides 34% and we seek 60% in the round. Based on the contribution rates over the savings period that we have, we know that an individual will achieve that level of income in retirement. Broadly, that is why we set the contribution rates as we set them. It is a rule of thumb within industry that somewhere between 14% and 17% of a person's income needs to be contributed to hit income target replacement rates and that is why we have set them.

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