Ms Mary Murphy:

People approaching retirement age are already finding it incredibly hard to find new work, so I do not think this will necessarily be creating a new difficulty. If the fear is that if I hire this person at 60 and seven years down the line they are not going to be able to meet their contractual obligations, then I just go through the process I would go through if that happened with someone who was 35 and was doing their job. That is why I brought up the Unfair Dismissals Act. The employer would just go through normal managerial processes.