Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Select Committee on Social Protection

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept that this is the way the Deputy has to put these amendments in. My point is the pension age is at 66 and it cannot be reduced to 65 across the board because that would have huge cost implications. It would come to €355 million per year to change it, which is a lot of money, and that would increase as the years go on. For those specific cases the Deputy is talking about, the ones who genuinely cannot work, I will look at it.

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