Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

All the submissions are on the web and are available to all members of the public. I intend to publish the report I am expecting over the next couple of weeks so that people can see the diverse range of views out there. Listening to other countries and reading the submissions, there are those who would like an SSIA approach, a mandatory approach or a soft mandatory approach. We have the diverging views I have already mentioned between employers and employees. What is the role of the State? What are people's expectations of their pensions? How much do people feel a private pension should be as against a State pension? What standard of living do people expect from their pensions as distinct from their working lives? All these issues must be considered seriously over the next couple of months and that is my intention.

See this speech in context