42. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the rollout of the auto-enrolment pension scheme; how any initial teething problems have been managed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13794/26]
Parliamentary questions
Questions
TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work
Browse the questions
Showing questions under the heading Pension Provisions.
240 questions match, newest first.
68. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to deal with the pensions issues for former An Post and Eir workers. [15634/26]
70. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Social Protection for a full breakdown of charges that pension providers are charging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10855/26]
72. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Social Protection for an update on the MyFutureFund; the number who have been enrolled to date in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14951/26]
86. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding supports for small businesses in relation to the auto-enrolment pension scheme; if he is conscious of the administrative and financial burden put on these businesses by this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13793/26]
709. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the State agencies within his Department that have made provision for the pension auto-enrolment payment as part of their allocation to funded organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14416/26]
424. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection the total administration fees paid, over the span of a scheme participant enrolment in MyFutureFund, as a percentage of their total employee contributions to their fund, by €5,000 band of average annual income from €20,000 to €80,000 that is, €20,000, €25,0000, €30,000, €35,000 and €80,000 , as against the age at which they entered the scheme, in tabular…
212. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the advice of the National Pension Policy Initiative to prohibit charges on accounts which are expressed in cash terms, which was followed in section 104 of the Pensions Act 1990, was not similarly adhered to for the MyFutureFund administration fees, in order to ensure that lower income participants receive similar value for money as higher in…
854. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 19 June 2025, to clarify if parents are the employer of home tutors and whether this means that they must now engage with the recently established auto enrolment pension acting as an employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12016/26]
856. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if workers who are paying into a private pension and not a work pension or have a previous work pension and now a private pension, can be fully excluded from auto enrolment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12113/26]
857. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if he considered the scenario of retired members of the Army or An Garda Síochána who retire earlier and may work in the private sector and do not want to be part of auto enrolment, can they be excluded from re-enrolment after two years where they opt out after six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12114/26]
858. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person who opts out of auto enrolment is enrolled again after two years when they have chosen to opt out; the reason this is being done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12115/26]
736. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person can be reviewed (details supplied); if he will provide an update on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9234/26]
316. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if it is correct that self-directed pensions currently hold 12,000 residential rental properties (details supplied); whether he has considered the potential impact that restricting direct property investment within PRSAs will have on the Irish rental market; if he is concerned that the proposed change could result in the sale of the 12,000 residenti…
322. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Social Protection if he can provide the latest breakdown, by county, of the number of employers who have signed up to auto enrolment; the total number of employees that have been enrolled, by county; the overall value of contributions collected to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7161/26]
323. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Social Protection when the My Future Fund app will be launched in order that people can track their contributions and savings pot online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7162/26]
105. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection to publish the operational guidelines for the auto-enrolment scheme. [6655/26]
106. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection given the AE scheme was already in payment for many persons, to confirm the basics of the scheme (details supplied). [6656/26]
107. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection whether a gender impact assessment was undertaken of the auto-enrolment savings scheme; if so, to provide the findings of the study. [6657/26]
108. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department is in charge of the actual pension funds and investments regarding the auto-enrolment savings scheme. [6658/26]
109. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if there will be an Ethics Committee within the auto-enrolment savings scheme to ensure that there are no investments made by the National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority, the investment management providers or any third party investment fund providers that go against the core values of Ireland (details supplied). [6659/26]
110. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider the Bruegel paper conclusion warning against using State pensions and saving funds as surety to further political and economics projects, to confirm that the first duty of the National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority and the pensions funds is to protect and grow peoples savings. [6662/26]
111. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason there has been such a delay in publishing the guidelines of the auto-enrolment scheme given this scheme was rolled out to many persons in the past weeks. [6663/26]
112. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the exact number of people enrolled in the auto-enrolment scheme. [6664/26]
115. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection whether a person who has had to leave the paid workforce with fewer than 520 paid contributions to become a carer would be refused the State pension (contributory) despite having up to 19 years and 51 weeks’ worth of care-related credited contributions awarded in return for providing a minimum of 35 hours a week of care work. [6753/26]