Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Taoisigh and Ministers continue to walk away from the Dáil with massive, gold-plated, guaranteed pensions - it has happened under this and previous Fianna Fáil-led Governments - yet the relentless attack on the pension entitlements of workers continues. The latest attack is in Irish Life, a company that the Government sold and that has remitted €370 million to the parent company in the past two years.

As if that was not bad enough, it is now taking away the defined benefit pension scheme of 3,400 pensioners.

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