Joan Burton

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Many people who are waiting to join a pension auto-enrolment scheme and every year lost in building up savings will mean less to pay out in retirement
Is pension auto-enrolment happening at all?

There was a new State-backed pension structure planned for workers who don’t have a private pension. I have not read or heard anything about this for (...)

Ireland has been committed to introducing a national auto-enrolment pension scheme since the late Seamus Brennan published a Green Paper on the topic during his period as social welfare minister in 2007
Another target date for an auto-enrolment pension scheme likely to be missed

The proposal for a national auto-enrolment pension scheme has been kicking around for quite a while, and it now looks very likely that yet another tar(...)

Policymakers invoke the “scarring effect” of unemployment – a persistent lower income for those who have been long-term unemployed, even when the economy recovers. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Welfare services should stick to giving advice and recommending education

Winding down the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) carefully is the balancing act at the heart of the new Pathways to Work 2021-2025 social welfare (...)

Labour Senator Ivana Bacik said her Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill would provide adopted persons with the right to access their birth certificate. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The irish Times.
Labour Bill seeks to give adopted people right to birth information

New adoption legislation to reverse a State policy that is “overly skewed towards privacy rights” has been introduced in the Seanad. Labour Senator I(...)

Denis O’Brien, third from left, with former taoiseach Enda Kenny at the ringing of the bell at the NYSE on March 19th, 2012. Photograph: Ben Hider/NYSE Euronext/PA Wire
Denis O’Brien’s media departure: ‘No politician will shed any tears’

The sale of Communicorp for more than €100 million marks the exit of telecoms tycoon Denis O’Brien from the Irish media market after a decades-long pr(...)

Eamon Ryan, one TD declared, needed ‘to be put back in his green box’. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Miriam Lord: Ryan’s U-turn on Limerick road fails to keep Keating on board

It hasn’t been a great week for the Greens. But there is precious little sympathy for Eamon Ryan and his party from their coalition partners. News o(...)

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
Government under pressure to have Minister answer questions on Woulfe appointment

The Government is facing mounting pressure from the Opposition to facilitate a question and answer session with Minister for Justice Helen McEntee on (...)

The Sar gave some details about Ros-Gip Ltd, and Ros-Vit Ltd, both of 5 Harbourmaster Place in the IFSC. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
FinCEN Files: Scale of challenge facing financial regulators revealed in leaked documents

In September 2015, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, of Wall Street, New York, sent a Suspicious Activity Report (Sar) to the Financial Crimes Enf(...)

We deny huge numbers of workers the right to be paid when they’re off sick – and hope the welfare system will pick up the slack. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland's young and working classes are in the Covid-19 firing line

A friend of mine works for the HSE. And she has no entitlement to sick pay. Like tens of thousands of other workers in the health system, she is emplo(...)

The seven rules of making a FF-FG-Green coalition work

THE GREEN PARTY MAY BE ENTERING GOVERNMENT WITH TWO PARTNERS, WHO HAPPEN TO BE FIERCE POLITICAL RIVALS. THIS NOVEL PARTNERSHIP COULD TAKE SOME GETT(...)

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