Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Discussion

Ms Eileen Sweeney:

-----funds into that scheme for up to 45 years. We were involved in changes and ballots during that period. Post that period we have the decumulation phase. We were protected up to 2030. Negotiations on our scheme started in 2009 or 2010 and, at that point in time, we were protected. The unions, employers and everybody else were involved in discussions around the occupational pensions scheme but all of a sudden in 2013, we were targeted for cuts in order to get the bottom line to work based on actuarial minimum funding standards, and we were excluded from that. We were part of the menu but not at the table. So existing employees, and deferred, would be extremely interested because we all live in fear and anxiety that the same thing can happen today, tomorrow or the next day without us. There is nothing to say we will not get the same letter next month or next week.

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