Ireland - Pension System Overview

 

• IOPS Country Profile: Ireland 2018 (pdf)

• Ireland: Pension system in 2018 (Pensions at a Glance 2019. OECD and G20 indicators)
  
  
• Ireland Voluntary funded pension profile, 2018 (ISSA/OECD/IOPS complementary and private pensions database)

 

Other resources:

• Irish retirement living standards 2024, (The Pensions Council, 2024)

• Master trusts - a practical guide for employers and trustees, (The Pensions Council, 2024)

• Smarter company pensions, (Irish Life, 2024)

• Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill published, (Department of Social Protection, 2024)

• Increasing Pay Related Social Insurance to fund the State Pension: Incidence and effectiveness, (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2024)

• State Contributory Pension reform: Winners and losers. Evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study of Aging, (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2024)

• Pension coverage 2023, (Central Statistics Office, 2023)

• Auto-enrolment, (Department of Social Protection, 2023)

• A paper on the retirement lump sum, (The Pensions Council, 2023)

• New Workplace Pension Scheme for Ireland - Minister Humphreys announces details of Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System, (Department of Social Protection, 2022)

• Report on cost transparency, (The Pensions Council, 2022)

• Report on gender pension gap, (The Pensions Council, 2022)

• Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income, (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)

• The distributional impact of pension auto-enrolment, (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2021)

• Analysis of data on occupational pension funds in Ireland, (Central Bank of Ireland, 2021)
  
  
• Income adequacy in retirement: Evidence from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing, (Economic and Social Research institute, 2020)
  
  
• Report of the Interdepartmental Pensions Reform and Taxation Group, (Department of Finance, 2020)
  
  

 

Key regulatory and Supervisory Authorities

• Pensions Authority (responsible for regulating occupational pension schemes, trust RACs and PRSAs): www.pensionsauthority.ie/en/
  
• Revenue (responsible for the assessment and collection of taxes and duties. Revenue are also responsible for approving occupational pension schemes): www.revenue.ie
  
• Central Bank of Ireland (responsible for the prudential supervision of PRSA providers): www.centralbank.ie

Key official statistical reference and sources on private pensions

• Central Statistics Office, www.cso.ie

• OECD, Global Pension Statistics project: www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/globalpensionstatistics.htm