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

For everybody who pays into their pension, it then becomes an entitlement. It is not a gift, it is something into which people have paid. We have to consider pension rights and property rights and whether or not the public would want to give us the power to take away somebody's pension rights.

The second issue that would need to be considered is due process. While there are people who have sailed off into the sunset with very generous pensions and lump sums, there are also those people who have been very unfairly hounded out. We would need to make sure there is due process in that regard, and consequences for those people who have hounded them out.

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