Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion

10:50 am

Ms Mary Kennedy:

They would have what they have at the moment. The report considered that. I keep going back to the point that the report found that the appropriate contribution rate for the State pension for everybody would be 15%. There would be additional benefits required by a self-employed person, such as jobseeker's benefit, with a rate of 16%.

Those are the figures produced in the report.