Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024

What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

• Creates independent State body to establish and administer automatic enrolment retirement savings system for employees not covered by qualifying pension schemes.
• Automatically enrolls eligible employees; allows opting in or out; collects contributions from participants, employers, and State; invests funds and pays savings at State Pension age.
• Board-governed Authority must publish strategy every 3 years, annual plans, statistical data, and conduct system review within 5 years of operation; Pensions Authority supervises.

Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?

1. First Stage33rd Dáil

   5 Apr 2024
2. Second Stage33rd Dáil

   5 Apr 2024
3. Committee Stage33rd Dáil

   8 May 2024
4. Report Stage33rd Dáil

   22 May 2024
5. Fifth Stage33rd Dáil

   22 May 2024
6. Second Stage26th Seanad

   28 May 2024
7. Committee Stage26th Seanad

   11 Jun 2024
8. Report Stage26th Seanad

   19 Jun 2024
9. Fifth Stage26th Seanad

   19 Jun 2024
10. Cream List33rd Dáil

    3 Jul 2024
11. Enacted

    9 Jul 2024

Debates

• From the Seanad3 Jul 2024↗
• Committee and Remaining Stages19 Jun 2024↗
• Second Stage28 May 2024↗
• Report and Final Stages22 May 2024↗
• Second Stage (Resumed)17 Apr 2024↗
• Second Stage16 Apr 2024↗

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