Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

Where stands the Government's pension policy? The report of the Pensions Board made recommendations that the Minister did not want to hear. Some of the recommendations, bizarrely, seem to increase inequality in pension entitlements. The forum, which might have a value in itself, will meet and report while at the same time the Pensions Board is being reconstituted and going through the same process it went through in the review. When will the discussions and debates finish and the recommendations come to a head and be acted upon? These are decisions that will need to be made in the short term by this or any following Government.

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