Ireland. Call for measures to end pensions ‘discrimination’ against private sector

Small business lobby Isme and Brokers Ireland, which represents financial advisers, have called on the Government to increase financial support for private pensions. The groups have written to Ministers outlining measures that, it says, would remove “pensions discrimination against the self-employed and private sector workers”. “The gold-plated pensions available to our politicians and our public servants are simply not affordable for workers in the private sector,” Isme said as they presented what they call a pensions “white paper”, drawn up in...