Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
Approximately 780,000 people are beneficiaries of a pension. There is also the things the Government is doing on auto-enrolment, as the Deputy is aware. Many people who do not have a State pension may have an occupational pension. The Government is trying to increase the number of people with an occupational pension from 35% of private sector employees to close to 90%.
That will help. The State pension reforms which are being implemented, particularly in respect of carers and granting carers full contributions where they have been long-duration carers, will mean more people will qualify for State pension in the future because there are reforms coming that will address the kinds of issues the Deputy is talking about.
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