rob316 wrote: » The ****ing pension age has to go up, its not an Irish thing this is happening all over Europe. When state pensions were first introduced people didn't live long after or even to that age at all, now you have most live into there 80's. The cost is unsustainable and we risk having no state pension in the future or a significantly reduced one. This shouldn't be an election gambit.
lawrencesummers wrote: » I don’t see the issue with the retirement age staying at 65, sure aren’t we going to be finished paying the IMF / Troika related loans before the ageing population Grows much bigger.
ChikiChiki wrote: » Your not far too wrong from my observations. Perhaps they need a few more conservative candidates. I'm a member and Catherine Murphy will be certainly getting my number one. There is another one that annoys the bejaysus out of me for being quite shouty on twitter. Owen Hanley in Galway. These woke candidates that actively look to create controversy and shout racism, misogyny, homophobia and whatever other nonsensical accusations at the drop at a hat do more damage than good imo.
KrustyUCC wrote: » The real pity is that Amadan O'Riordain might benefit from Broughan withdrawing
rob316 wrote: » And they'll probably postpone the rise for another year but all you are doing is kicking it down the road.
Mad_maxx wrote: » the reaction to this issue has confirmed to me that we are a very immature people and face a very severe day of reckoning down the line , the pension time bomb will make the banking crisis look like a picnic
lawrencesummers wrote: » If the government had changed the private sector legislation retirement age to 66 in line with the entitlement to receive a pension From 66 then there would not have been an issue.
Plumbthedepths wrote: » Well in fairness Leo is loaded and he has p*ssed off a lot of the country also, sauce for the gander and all that.
Idbatterim wrote: » Varadkar a leader ? He’s a follower. He follows kites !
Mad_maxx wrote: » catherine murphy i can respect though she is far too far left economically for me , roisin shorthall however is the biggest waffler in the dail and has been for a decade insufferable woman who is never off the radio and tv
marieholmfan wrote: » She doesn't even have a penis!
Snow Garden wrote: » 400 billion euro is the forecast. The state pension will be means tested and insufficient meaning a lot of pensioners will live in poverty.
2020Vision wrote: » She used to have a prick called Stephen but he left her and joined FF.
Mad_maxx wrote: » Any politician who proposes raising the state pension is an enemy of those under forty Willie o dea has done nothing this past four years other than demand more money for pensioners
Phoebas wrote: » I'm doubtful that any government can impose that retrospectively (if at all). Employment contracts are entered into voluntarily. What they could - and should - have done at least is got the employers groups together and got them to agree a voluntary change.
lawrencesummers wrote: » They can change it at least for future contracts, or introduce legislation that links the retirement age in the private sector to the age of the pension entitlement.
Water John wrote: » Maxx, that is good right wing attack on the Soc Dems. The two ladies are recognised across the House for their ability and I think MM will be quite happy to accommodate them if he is forming a rainbow Govn't.
Sir Oxman wrote: » Don't mind the 2 TDs as they are (very good) but that party is wokeness personified and that is why they will wither and die after the two women are the only ones returned yet again.
LeinsterDub wrote: » What does 'wokeness personified' even mean. An absolute non sentence.
Phoebas wrote: » The government aren't a party to the contract I have with my employer and nor should they be. It's a private matter. My current employment contract terminates on my 60th birthday. It's nothing to go with the government.
