Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if persons will be allowed to work until they reach 66 years of age (details supplied). [29431/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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An Inter-Departmental Working Group on Fuller Working Lives was established earlier this year under the chairmanship of my Department which considered policy around retirement age in both the public and private sectors, examining implications arising from retirement ages now and in the future.  That Group reported recently and in accordance with one of its recommendations, my Department is currently preparing to carry out a review, with public service employers, of the current statutory and operational considerations giving rise to barriers to extended participation in the public service workforce up to and including the current and planned age of entitlement to the Contributory State Pension.

Any consideration of changes to existing public service compulsory retirement ages would need to have regard to the service-delivery requirements of the particular public service sectors, existing terms and conditions of employment including pension provision and other entitlements of the staff concerned, workforce planning issues and impacts on the public finances.