Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept that auto-enrolment causes great confusion in this regard but, if we maintain the existing system of tax relief, regardless of whether they have an occupational pension or are auto-enrolled, it would allow those people to avail of the higher relief, even though they are on lower incomes and at the moment would theoretically get a 25% top-up, because the vast bulk of them are in households where there is substantial income coming in.

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