ALERTS 2026 

AUGUST 19 2026 - 11AM TO 3PM.   INVITATION : Staff Travel: RASA Session to Help new 'MYSTAFF TRAVEL' - System Users 

RASA is planning on having an Open Day in ALSAA on Wednesday 19th August from 11am to 3pm to help other Retired Staff manage and navigate the new MYSTAFFTRAVEL system. 

If you are attending, please bring your 2 devices, Smart mobile phone and LAPTOP/TABLET or iPAD.

It would be very helpful if you would let us know the approximate time between 11am and 3pm that you wish to attend to ensure we have sufficient resources to help.     It would also give us an idea of the numbers to expect. 

Please email your name and approximate time to rasa50th@gmail.com .

1 August 2026 -  NEW PARTICIPATION CHARTER PUBLISHED

Strengthening the Voice of Older People in Ireland

Age Action and the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament have officially published a ground-breaking Participation Charter.

This Charter sets out ten practical principles to ensure that older people have a meaningful, active voice in the decisions that shape their lives and communities.

RASA welcomes the publication of this Participation Charter .   RASA pensioners have extensive lived experience following exclusion from discussions and negotiations, that has and can again reduce  pensioners income  post retirement - decisions about their income in retirement about them without them.  

Go to: https://seniors.ie/new-participation-charter-launched-to-empower-older-voices-in-public-policy-and-public-life/   

Correspondence to IASS Trustees, Sponsoring Employers & others.

Reply May 22 2026

Chair, IASS Trustee reply to correspondence sent December 2025.

In essence it rejects and dismisses all the concerns.    No offer to meet. 

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RASA wrote on December 13, 2025, to the Trustees, Sponsoring Employers of the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme and others.

RASA informed them of the strong expression of significant concerns by RASA retirees’ pensions in payment raised at the November 2025 AGM and other issues and the need for these to be addressed urgently.   

RASA advised that we are available to meet.  

APRIL 2026 - The Government  does not want retirees at the table where others are making decisions to cut/reduce retirees pensions in payment. 

The Government has refused to back the Industrial Relations (Provision in Respect of Pension Entitlements for Retied Workers Bill 2021

The Department of Enterprise stated that this Bill would upset the long established relations between workers and employers, and create significant disharmony in the current Industrial Relations System.       

This current IR system excludes retired workers from discussions and negotiations,  has and could again reduce  pensioners income  post retirement - decisions about their income in retirement about them without them.  

ALLOW RETIRED PENSIONERS THEIR VOICE

DO NOT BLOCK THIS BILL. 

March 2026.   Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 - Retired Workers Collective Network.     

This Bill was sent to the Bills' Office to ascertain if it needs a “money message” .

Many pensioners believe the “money message” will be used to block the Bill as has happened to many Private Members’ Bills.

In this context RASA would encourage all retirees to make contact and/or write to their local TD to request their support for this Bill. More details available on Irish Senior Citizens parliament website.

https://seniors.ie/current-status-of-the-industrial-relations-provisions-in-respect-of-pension-entitlements-of-retired-workers-bill-2021-the-bill/

Go to Campaign /Focus 2026 side bar for a Draft Template letter. 

RASA Pension Sub Committee February 2026 meeting with the Minister for Transport.  

This was a follow up meeting from March 2025.  At this meeting we shared our RASA two flyers – ‘REMIND & INFORM’ and graphic depicting ‘18 years of Austerity 2007-2025’.   We reminded the Minister that RASA Pensioners/Retirees, former employees of Aer Lingus/DAA/SAA/SR-T in receipt of their pensions in 2014 have experienced an erosion approaching 55/60% due to levies, freeze on cost-of-living increases and retroactive legislative cuts without compensation/mitigation having contributed into their IASS Defined Benefit Occupational pension fund for up to 45 years. 

IASS Pensioners/Retirees had no voice at the table and the only group of members within the IASS who did not receive compensation/mitigation for these benefit reductions.    RASA wants this fixed