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. We need to be cautious with our messaging. There is an element of under-promising and over-delivering in achieving what we have always said is adequate, based on that idea of maintaining living standards. For somebody who has not saved or is saving a moderate amount, it is a high bar. An element of our marketing and sales on this will be that one is improving one's preparedness and financial readiness for retirement. Selling it as something that will achieve the sun, moon and stars for a person will probably get us into a bad space just because of the level of contributions that people make during the course of their career. It is a matter of improving one's financial readiness.
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