Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection

1:40 pm

Ms Patricia Murphy:

I can provide the Deputy with the specific figures but they are generally above those in the UK, particularly in terms of individual arrangements. On the defined contribution schemes, the comparator we used was the reduction in yield and this is 0.45% to 0.9%. The reduction in yield relating to the UK stakeholder pension is 1% to 1.63%. The typical charging structure for standard PRSAs is 1.27% to 1.57%. These are closer to the UK stakeholder pension and both are slightly less.