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:

Any amendment of the occupational schemes would certainly involve changes to regulations, as proposed in the report. This would mean they would have to be complied with and that they would also apply to existing members of schemes in order to bring them up to date in their information. So I suppose the answer is that one should get simple, straightforward and understandable information on the amounts one is paying now and on how these will ultimately be reflected in one's pension.