Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion

2:10 pm

Dr. Orlaigh Quinn:

When we make changes, be they improvements or disimprovements, what typically happens is that we do not backdate them. The changes to the homemaker's scheme to which the Senator referred applied from 1994 onwards. There is a cost involved.