Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The converse of that is the question of what employer will take me on when I am 60 with the prospect that I have a contract for life, effectively, if I wish to operate it. Are there unintended consequences of this? That is what I am trying to probe. I am quite sympathetic to the change, but we could end up with people who are approaching retirement age just being locked out of the jobs market because they do not want to enter into something that seems too uncertain.