Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage
5:30 pm
Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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This section deals with pensions. In a response to me earlier the Minister said I was trying to ensure pensioners would be given priority over low paid workers. That is not the position. There is no question of wanting pensioners to have priority over anybody else. The issue is pensioners receiving their entitlements. Pensions are owned by pensioners and are, in fact, private property.