{"id":46049,"date":"2025-09-27T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46049\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:41:08","slug":"richard-curran-by-2064-ireland-will-have-more-pensioners-than-workers-thats-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46049\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Curran: By 2064, Ireland will have more pensioners than workers \u2013 that\u2019s a problem"},"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\">Ageing population means getting auto-enrolment right is more important than ever\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon: Graeme Keyes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ToonS27.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)\">Cartoon: Graeme Keyes<\/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)\">\u2018Auto-enrolment has been talked about for 30 years \u2013 in 2025 it will become a reality.\u201d That is how then social protection minister Heather Humphreys made the pledge last year to set up a new pension system for 800,000 workers who don\u2019t have any retirement safety net. It has now been kicked back to 2026. What\u2019s another few months after 30 years, I suppose?<\/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)\">Discussing pensions is a bit like talking about asteroids that are millions of kilometres away with a low chance of hitting the Earth. Too remote and intangible to be of immediate worry. But old age is a lot more certain. Some have banked on their home or rental income from property providing their future pension, but even that looks a lot less certain as the percentage of renters is expected to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ageing population means getting auto-enrolment right is more important than ever Cartoon: Graeme Keyes \u2018Auto-enrolment has been talked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14313,1814,292,18425,2044,61,1629,60,102,1261,43,1558,5914],"class_list":["post-46049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-department-of-social-protection","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-heather-humphreys","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-pensions","tag-richard-curran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049","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=46049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}