Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

My very last point is on the retired workers themselves. I have introduced a Bill to amend the Industrial Relations Act to give retired workers the right to be represented where their pensions have been interfered with. It is shocking to think that they can say nothing, as happened during the austerity years to all our public sector workers, particularly those in the semi-States. In goes the State and takes out the workers' pension fund and they never get to say tickety-boo about it. The decent thing to do, if we are to proceed down this road, would be to give the workers the right to representation should their pensions be interfered with by anybody, including the State.

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