Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister agree that the ineptitude of the Government is best reflected in its failure to deal with the issue of the pensions time bomb for more than a decade? Does he also agree that it is disgraceful that 200,000 people who have paid into defined benefit schemes might not have their expectations met and that nothing has been done by the Government in the interim other than to defer dates? When will there will be positive results? When will the new defined benefit scheme be established? Everything appears to have been put on the long finger. What proposals has the Minister to deal with the shortfall? What message can he send to the 200,000 people who will not receive the pensions they expected?

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