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The Irish General election held on 29 November to elect the 34th Dáil saw 686 candidates compete for 174 seats across 43 constituencies. While pensions did not feature heavily as a debate topic during the election campaign, a number of high-profile sitting TDs decided to retire, putting the issue [...]

Women are much less likely than men to put money towards their pension pot, partly because they earn less on average, leading to a major disparity between the amount of retirement income received by men and women. This has led to calls for the new auto-enrolment pension scheme to [...]

A recent report comparing pension systems in 48 countries has placed Ireland at 18th, down 5 places in a year. While Ireland still ranks highly, Ireland’s index value fell from 70.2 to 68.1 in the report by the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, which covers almost two thirds [...]

A massive backlog has meant that many Irish people who worked in the UK could be waiting up to a year and a half to receive their British pension top-up. More than 250,000 Irish people may be due to benefit from a significant pension boost, pushing their pension from [...]

Budget 2025 has been widely advertised as offering “the largest social welfare package in the history of the State, providing €2.6 billion to assist households”.  While these seemingly “populist” budgets may prove beneficial when it comes to the polling stations, there’s a real question mark around whether they actually [...]

A recent survey carried out by Royal London Ireland, who provide pensions, personal and business protection in Ireland, looked at respondents’ expectations around funding their retirement. The survey results suggested that almost half of the survey respondents (45%) expect their sixties to be the most expensive decade of their [...]