Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)

I would take the last five years of a person's working life as the timeframe for the scheme. A mechanism can be developed to allow personal pensions to be maintained over this period. Those who start on the career ladder with two or three days of work would not be paying pension contributions because they would be on a fixed contract. There is potential in this scheme for a win-win outcome. As the measure would be cost neutral I ask the Minister to give it serious consideration. I am sure she would be favourably disposed towards it if she examined it closely, even if a bit of tweaking is needed.

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