Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I ask that the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs be invited to the House for a discussion on the plight of the tens of thousands who belong to private sector occupational pension schemes and were compelled to join such a scheme by their employers in keeping with the agreement with past Governments over several decades. They now find that their benefits are frozen. This issue should be highlighted. Those who left employment for one reason or another now find that their benefits were frozen at that time and that their pension is worthless.