Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

On this issue, the retirement age in Ireland must rise. As life expectancy increases, the pension burden to which the Minister of State referred will increase and that is why the troika recommended raising the retirement age. It is an acknowledgement of the way the world is going in that 70 is the new 50. People live longer, they live healthier lives and particularly in the case of lawyers, in the constituency Senator Bacik and I represent, the saying would be that lawyers mature well-----