Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not believe it is in the programme for Government, but I understand where Deputy Shortall is coming from. Many members of the public, and I too, get extremely annoyed seeing people who have been involved in wrongdoing sailing off into the sunset with very generous pensions and very generous lump sums. The question is whether there is something we can do about it. We have to consider two things. Firstly, pensions in Ireland are property rights. If a person pays into it-----

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