Mr. Ronan Slevin:

In addition to that, gardaí reach mandatory retirement age at 60 years. If they take up employment after that, they lose the supplementary pension even though they are trying to contribute to the workforce. Then, since 2013, the pension system has changed again to the single scheme. People contribute depending on their service. With the age profile opening up and people joining at a later age, the ability to make that contribution to one's pension reduces or else the requirement to work longer and longer increases. The pension coming out from that, at best, even using the State calculation tools for it, is around €10,000 or €12,000. This is forcing people to work on until 60 years of age but then they have that lull in their pension between age 60 and whenever they are able to access the old age pension, whatever it will be at that stage. The attractiveness of the job has definitely deteriorated and is continuing to deteriorate.