Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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The witnesses also highlighted the fact that people are living longer now. Women are living 23 years and men are living 20 years beyond the so-called retirement age, as we mentioned earlier. A woman down my way, who was the oldest woman in Ireland, recently died at the age of 110. People are being born now who could live to 120 or 130.