Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

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

Mr. Tim Duggan:

Therefore, what they decided to do was to have an equal treatment in the AE system. I know that last week the question of the cost of tax relief for AE versus the cost of the top-up for AE came up. Actually, the difference is negligible. From our calculations, there is hardly any difference at all. It will obviously depend on the numbers and the levels they are in terms of income but based on the data on which we have been able to do analysis, the difference is virtually nil. The way that becomes virtually nil-----

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