Government to exempt itself from having to sign up its own low-paid staff to auto-enrolment pension plan

Workers with defined benefit (DB) pension arrangements will be treated separately under the new scheme

Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary

The Government will avoid the embarrassment of having to sign up thousands of its own staff to the new auto-enrolment pension scheme.

New regulations coming in as part of the My Future Fund scheme could see huge numbers of low-paid public servants enrolled in the new pension.