Ireland. Reducing pension age from 66 to 65 would cost €127m
Sinn Féin expects other parties and the public to judge them on “what they say they will do if they were in government in the south not what they actually do when they are in Government in the North,” Minister of State Damien English has said.
Mr English made the claim during a Dáil debate on a Sinn Féin motion calling for calling for the Government to offer people the choice to retire at 65 if they wish.
The pension age was a major issue during the 2020 general election campaign and Sinn Féin was one of the parties that campaigned against proposals to increase it to 67.
The party’s enterprise spokeswoman Louise O’Reilly said the motion was about “making a public declaration that we listened” to what voters said in the last election “and that we have not forgotten the message they gave us”.
“After a lifetime of work I and Sinn Féin believe that a worker should be able to retire on the full pension rate of pay,” she said, adding that workers should also have the choice to access the pension at 65 or “work on on the same terms and conditions of employment”.
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