Dr. Laura Bambrick:

For the occupational pension, we support the recommendation that we move to an exempt-exempt tax model. On the State pension, we very much welcome the announcement by the Minister Deputy Humphreys this week on the requirement to have ten years' worth of paid contributions to be able to cash in credit contributions. The Government will move to work around the barrier for parents, in large number mothers, who care for children with profound disabilities who do not get an opportunity to return to work to build up their contributions. This is a very welcome and long overdue policy that has the full support of ICTU.