Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I can answer the general question. A report from the Commission on 15 June 1995 analysing national laws transposing the directive found that in the case of Ireland there was no cause for objection. The Commission found that all of these provisions appear to meet the requirements of Article 8. Following the ruling in the Robins case, the Commission published a working document in April 2008 which essentially described how each member state had transposed the directive. It did not assess the conformity of the measures in place with the obligations imposed by Article 8 of the directive. It concluded that further investigation is needed to address how to protect employees and retired persons against the risk of underfunding of pension schemes and to what extent; how to guarantee any unpaid contributions to the pension schemes; and how to deal with cases where supplementary pension schemes are managed by the employers themselves. The Department is awaiting the outcome of this investigation.

See this speech in context