2025 Annual Memorial/Ecumenical Service.
NO INCOME PROTECTION OR SECURITY IN RETIREMENT FOR IASS IRISH PENSIONERS FROM JANUARY 2015 to DECEMBER 2023
THEIR BASIC MONTHLY PAY REDUCED
TOTAL TAKEN UNILATERALLY - TO DATE
c€54m cum
FOR THE LAST 9 YEARS - SINCE JAN 2015
THIS IS THE CUMULATIVE AMOUNT THAT RETIREES ACTUAL BASIC MONTHLY INCOME IS COMPULSORILY REDUCED !
ONLY GROUP OF IASS SCHEME MEMBERS EXCLUDED FROM MITIGATION/BUY-OUT
DECISIONS TAKEN ABOUT US BY THOSE AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
NO VOICE FOR PENSIONERS AT THE TABLE OR COMPENSATION!!
WHY ARE RASA PENSIONERS STILL EXPERIENCING THESE PAINFUL CUTS?
WHY ARE RASA PENSIONERS NOT PROTECTED AND PROVIDED WITH DIGNITY & SECURITY OF THEIR PENSION PROMISE & FIXED AT RETIREMENT?
WHY ARE THE PENSIONERS RECEIVING THEIR PENSION BENEFIT THE ONLY GROUP OF IASS MEMBERS TARGETTED FOR EXCLUSION OF FINANCIAL COMPENSATION BUY OUT OF THEIR PENSION BENEFIT REDUCTION BY EMPLOYERS?
WHY IS PENSION PROMISE BROKEN AND NOT KEPT FOR THIS GROUP OF OLDER MEMBERS IN THEIR MULTI-EMPLOYER CROSS BORDER DEFINED BENEFIT SCHEME ?
WHY IS THIS GROUP OF PENSIONERS STILL AWAITING RESTORATION OF BENEFIT CUTS OF UP TO 22.53% UNILATERALLY?
YOUR PENSION NEEDS ATTENTION!!!!
VOICE OF OLDER PEOPLE - NETWORK OF RETIRED WORKERS ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTING OVER 500,000 PENSIONERS
WORKING TOGETHER ON THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (PROVISIONS IN RESPECT OF PENSION ENTITLEMENTS OF RETIRED WORKERS) BILL 2021
NATIONAL PENSION PROMISE CAMPAIGN
OCTOBER 3, 2023.
Public Consultation - European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) review of EU IORPII Directive
In May 2023 the European Commission asked EIOPA [European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority) for technical advice for their review of IORPII Directive.
EIOPA engaged with stakeholders and carried out a wide public consultation survey. RASA responded to this European wide survey.
EIOPA published their review in September 2023 and this can be read on the following link: .
You can review all the stakeholders' responses including RASA's
APRIL 19 2023 - RASA MEET WITH MINISTERS.
RASA representatives, along with others from the Collective Retired Workers Network under the aegis of the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament, meet with the Minister for Trade, Enterprise & Employment, Simon Coveney and Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Neale Richmond, to outline our lived experience of 'Decisions made about us Without us' with no mitigation or buyout/transfer value and reduced our monthly pension income fixed on date of retirement/draw down, and the delay and lack of progress of this Bill through the Dáil.
This meeting followed on from a Press Conference and Rally outside the Dail in support of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers ) Bill 2021.
April 2023 - RASA_Retired Aviation Staff Association members of our Defined Benefit Occupational Pension Scheme and pensioners from other Public Sector pensioners outside the Dail .
Further coverage of RASA and Rally April 19 2023
Go to Irish Senior Citizens Parliament website
Go to B Smith Twitter 19 April 2023 for report at Rally.
KEEP THE DATE - 12.30: APRIL 19 2023
UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE IRISH SENIOR CITIZENS PARLIAMENT
THE COLLECTIVE RETIRED WORKERS NETWORK ARE HOLDING A
RALLY OUTSIDE DAIL IN SUPPORT OF THE
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (PROVISIONS IN RESPECT OF PENSION ENTITLEMENTS OF RETIRED WORKERS) BILL 2021.
DAIL EIREANN DEBATE
ON THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2023
READ MINISTER OF STATE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NUMBER 71
IN RESPECT OF THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (PROVISIONS IN RESPECT OF PENSION ENTITELEMENTS OF RETIRED WORKERS) BILL 2021.
OIREACHTAS JOINT COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE, TRADE & EMPLOYMENT - JANUARY 25 2023.
Detailed pre legisative scrutiny of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlement of Retired Workers) Bill 2021. RASA along with other representatives from the Retired Workers Network at the Oireachtas Joint Committee to outline our lived experience of being excluded from the table where negotiations affecting our pensions in payment were being held and the outcome of which negatively impacted our pensions in payment.
25 January 2023
Transcript available on the Oireachtas website
Recording available
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/33/enterprise-trade-and-employment/videos/
24 January 2023 - ONGOING DEDUCTIONS OF PENSION LEVY
Two Parliamentary Questions PQ 232 and PQ 233 were raised in the Dail on the above.
Replies from the Minister For Finance. Go to the Oireachtas Debates Questions or click on the following
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2023-01-24/232/#pq_232
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2023-01-24/233/#pq_233