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:

• 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)
  
  
• Gender, pensions and income in retirement, (Economic and Social Research institute, 2019)
  
  
• Estimating, and interpreting, retirement income replacement rates, (Economic and Social Research institute, 2019)
  
  
• A Roadmap for Pensions Reform 2018 - 2023, (Government of Ireland, 2019)

• Underestimation of money growth and pensions: Experimental investigations (pdf), (Economic and Social Research institute, February 2019)

• A Strawman Public Consultation Process for an Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System for Ireland (pdf), (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, 2018)

• Supporting decision-making in retirement planning: Do diagrams on pension benefit statements help? (Economic and Social Research institute, 2018)

• The framing of options for retirement: Experimental tests for policy (pdf), (Economic and Social Research institute, 2018)

• Report on Individual Buy-Out Bond charges (pdf), (The Pensions Council, 2017)

• Report on Approved Retirement Fund charges (pdf), (The Pensions Council, 2016)

• OECD Reviews of Pension Systems - Ireland (pdf), (OECD, 2014)

• National Pensions Framework (pdf), (Framework for a wide-scale reform of the Irish pension system, March 2010)
  
  
• Report on Trusteeship (pdf), (The Pensions Board, 2007)

 

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