Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 255: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that companies who wish to tender for public works contracts can subscribe to pension schemes for their employees other than those offered by the Construction Industry Federation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Pension arrangements other than those offered by the Construction Industry Federation may be used as an alternative provided the terms in such arrangements are no less favourable than the terms in the Registered Employment Agreement (Construction Industry Pensions Assurance and Sick Pay).

Where a firm is registered in another Member State of the EU and is working in Ireland and has employees temporarily posted from that jurisdiction who subscribe to a national pension scheme in their own country, then that firm or its employees (who have their own pension arrangements in their own State) do not have to subscribe to an Irish pension scheme that meets the requirement of the REA.