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

I can understand why, for electoral reasons or reasons of popularity, we could go out and say we were not doing this. People aged between 62 and 65 years would say that was great and that they would vote for the parties that were stating this because they would not have to retire at 67 years but at 66. However, the ones who would lose out are the people who are in their 40s and 50s or who are 60 because they are the ones who would see major reductions in their pension payments if we do not get ahead of this problem and make pensions sustainable long before there is a crisis.

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