{"id":122955,"date":"2025-11-05T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122955\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:13:09","slug":"paschal-donohoe-says-there-will-be-no-change-to-state-pension-age-under-current-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122955\/","title":{"rendered":"Paschal Donohoe says there will be no change to state pension age under current government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Increased PRSI payments will be used to cover rising costs\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/62c7e087-661f-4e50-b504-6448e71edcd0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There will be no increase in the state pension age during the lifetime of this government, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has promised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Even as a report from his department showed Ireland is facing severe demographic difficulties and that nearly half of all public expenditure will be on age-related issues within 40 years, Mr Donohoe said this will not be tackled by raising the current retirement age from 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increased PRSI payments will be used to cover rising costs Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: Collins There will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,11977,176,807,3662,61,1629,60,5243,3413,774,1558,174,175],"class_list":["post-122955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-department-of-finance-dof","tag-finance","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-national-development-plan","tag-paschal-donohoe","tag-pensions","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}