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

There is a lot of talk about pensioners, their rights, their poverty and the way they live, but there is another aspect to pensioners we are losing sight of, that is, they are retired workers and many of them have pensions they are entitled to have and to have increases in. A cohort badly hit by the austerity in 2011 and 2012 is public sector pensioners. I am not talking about the gold-plated pensions, top civil servant style pensions or Deputies' or Ministers' style of pensions. I am talking people who worked for CIÉ, An Post, RTÉ, ESB, etc. and there is a Bill I hope to have before committee soon on this. Can the Minister tell me why after ten months with 2% due to them retired An Post workers have not received their pay increase and why they are forced to live without that money while it is held in somebody else's pockets? Will she please answer that and if she can intervene will she ensure those retired An Post workers get their 2% which is long overdue to them?

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