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Will this change the age at which serving front line public servants can retire at? My understanding is that certain public sector workers are forced to retire at the age of sixty, resulting in the loss of valuable experience. Can they now continue to work to sixty six or seventy?

Is that really the best photo you could get?

WHAT! New teachers will have to fund their own pensions! That’s madness! … what next, people on the dole will have to be unemployed?

I believe from reading on rte.ie following the six o clock news that it will be increased until 70 yoa

More lazy teacher bashing in that comment zzzzzzz.

CAPTION THE PHOTO!

”Welcome to hell… where your soul is payable in monthly instalments or if you have no soul to give, we’ll hand you over to NAMA and they’ll help you out”

Howlin at the moon. Only for new entrants – meaning we will benefit from this measure sometimes in 2050. Just what we need.

Looks like they are just dipping the the toe in the water until the Joke Park agreement expires in 2014. Then he can follow through with these changes for all the existing public sector employees as well. The majority of private sector pensions are at the mercy of the markets with the risk of getting less back than you paid in a reality. About time the playing fields started to level out. Interesting to ponder if the public sector pension will be based on the average career earning will this encourage people to work harder and increase productivity? Small step forward today for the taxpayer. Hopefully more to come.

“This will mean in effect new teachers will fund the full cost of their pensions,” this statement by the INTO is both hilarious and shocking as it displays their utter contempt, welcome to the real world!

I may have misheard earlier in the day, but the proposed legislation will contain another piece of enabling legislation allowing the relevant minister to adjust the pensions of existing public servants after February 2012 should circumstances arise.

Cormac I do not refer to frontline services. It is well known that productivity is below par at various levels of the public sector. This is not an opinion of mine. Public sector unions acknowledged this when they signed up for the Croke Park agreement. You will recall the principal agreed aim of this agreement was to produce major productivity improvements in the Public Sector? In return the government agreed not to impose public sector layoffs or further public sector pay cuts despite continuous layoffs and pay cuts in the private sector. Nice deal if you can get it!

People seem to forget there are two sides to the Croke Park deal, if we deliver, they’re supposed to deliver. Of course when the time comes they’ll argue that this wasn’t done and that wasn’t met, bottom line is they’ll do anything to get out of delivering on their side of the deal. The Public Service HAS seen numbers cut, HAS seen wages cut, all that’s been asked of it has been done.

i love the way everyone immediately jumps on the "how dare you cut front line workers pay&conditions" bandwagon everytime a change is considered! No one wants to see gardaí or nurses or firemen facing cuts but those people are in the minority of the public service. Everytime a debate gets going they’re pushed to the fore to hopefully insight some moral outrage! The government shud remove all the frobt liners from whatever grouping that has them lumped in with mandarins, quangos and assorted paper pushers and be dealt wirh seperately! Oh and by the way I know people a few years off retiring who have been paying into private pensions for years only for the value to disappear with all the market turmoil that has been going on effectively meaning they are gettin out less than went in! That is called the real world, god forbid that public and private employees shud both have to exist there!

How can government save 1.8 billion euros on future public servants pensions when there is an embargo on recruitment? This is as useful as an underwater hair dryer. Government still ignoring elephant on the room.

People should be paid for work not for time office the private sector. For a start get rid of sick days altogether and if people are sick claim from the sickness benefit like the rest of the private sector. No more sick days – it is sick and absurd.

Teachers paying for their pensions like the rest of us, bout frickin time!

China have recently invested hugely in robotics. One company has 110,000 robots and employes 1.5 million in their group of companies.
They recently started to replace the production line workers as the robots are so much more efficient and no sick days no pensions etc etc.
When will the rest of the world wake up as employment’s a thing of the past for a lot more people. The company I am referring to is an IT company which produces for all the big US companies.
The government are trying to incentivise these guys with grants for employment. Hello. Wakie Wakie.

robotic teachers? don’t think we’re quite there yet. also chinese companies treat their employees like robots anyway and doubt they’ve ever heard of pensions let alone sick leave!

All this talk of public servant pensions being readjusted, but all there doing is attacking the small people in society again.. Notice how theres going to be no reform with politicians who can still claim 3 or 4 different pensions, fair enough claim a ministers pension, but not each level of pension you were entitled to before that.. how much is thus legacy system costing us??