Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is not a question of being put to the back of any queue. As proposed in the Green Paper, it is a question of examining the cost of pension provision and how the provision of further improved incentives would be taken up by people who do not regard current arrangements as sufficient for supplementary pension provision. That is what I am talking about and ideally from the State's and the Minister's viewpoint, to do so on a revenue-neutral basis in the context of the significant billions already being spent in this area, should be the way forward. However, this is subject to negotiation and discussion.

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