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Brexit is bad news for pension schemes. Since 23 June, we have seen falls in equity markets and increases in the cost of purchasing annuities.

The Interdepartmental Group on Fuller Worker Lives has published their Report on policies around retirement age in both the public and private sectors.

After much speculation, and a number of submissions from the pensions industry, the 2013 Budget was announced yesterday, with the measures which will impact occupational pensions being few and broadly positive.

An appeal which would have allowed the same-sex partner of a college lecturer to access his pension after death is dismissed.

We look ahead at the developments we may see across the Irish pensions sector later this year.

The Irish High Court recently provided some useful clarification in the area of the transfer of personal retirement savings accounts ("PRSAs") overseas.

Employers can establish a mandatory retirement age for employees but such ages must be capable of being reasonably and objectively justified if they are challenged by employees as being discriminatory on grounds of age.

A construction company that failed to pay contributions to a pension scheme is held liable to pay full death benefit to a widow. Judicial review upholds decision of the Pensions Ombudsman.

A recent sexual harassment decision (O'Brien v Deadline Direct Ltd t/a Deadline Couriers - ADJ-00036160), where the complainant was awarded the maximum compensation amount of two years' remuneration...

The Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Regulations 2025 (S.I.s 637 and 668 of 2025) were signed by Minister Dara Calleary just before the Christmas break.

Life expectancies have risen to an average of 82 years of age. Despite this, most employers still have the traditional mandatory retirement age of 65 for their staff across the board.

The Pensions Regulator expressed concern with the current low interest rate environment and the negative affect this was having on pension scheme funding.

The Minister for Social Protection recently announced that the Irish Government has approved the publication of the General Scheme of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017 (the "Bill").

A recent decision of the High Court offers some useful guidance on the appropriate time for a defendant to bring an application to strike out proceedings for delay or want of prosecution.

The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025 (the “Act”) has passed through both Houses of the Oireachtas and was signed into law by the President on 16 December 2025.

Following the changes, employees with a contractual retirement age of 65 and who would currently expect to receive a state pension at that age will no longer receive a state pension until they reach 66 years of age.

The qualification age for the State pension in Ireland is in the process of increasing. By 2028 this qualification age will be 68.

As the launch of My Future Fund (MFF) approaches, the Department of Social Protection (the Department) has written to various pensions industry bodies including the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF)...