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The Taoiseach has said he has an open mind on not raising the State pension age

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01:57 2 Feb 2022


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It's after an Oireachtas Committee recommended keeping the qualifying age at 66 - rather than following the Pensions Commission advice to raise it to 68 by 2039.

It also advised getting rid of mandatory retirement ages in employment contracts.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says they haven't made a decision yet on the future of pensions:

"I have an open mind. Genuinely government will approach this with an open mind. There's no point pretending to future generations that we've left them short that this generation has not devised policy responses that guarantees and sustains pensions well into the future and decades ahead, that as a core has to be a core objective of the entire house."


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