Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made with employers regarding extending contracts of employees beyond the age of 65 years to allow them to remain in the workforce. [5250/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Generally a contract of employment will contain a specific retirement age and this is a matter of contract between the relevant parties.

I understand that the Department of Social Protection is chairing an inter-Departmental Group on Working and Retirement issues, on which my Department is represented. This Group has been initiated to consider cross-departmental policy issues that will support longer working. In this regard, the Department of Social Protection arranged a Working and Retirement Forum in Croke Park on 12 December 2012 at which a broad range of interest groups were represented, including those interest groups representing older persons.