The National Pensions Framework, published in 2010, provided for a new auto enrolment pension scheme to be introduced in Ireland from 2014.  This would require employers to automatically enrol certain members of their workforce into a pension scheme and to make contributions to the pension fund on their behalf.  Such employees and the State would also be obliged to make contributions to the fund.

While this autumn will see the implementation of a similar auto enrolment system in the UK, this proposal has received little further action in Ireland since the publication of the Framework in 2010, indicating that auto enrolment may not come into operation in Ireland by 2014.

Contributed by Mary Greaney, Lorna Osborne.

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