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SIPTU calls for urgent action on pensions

22.10.2007
SIPTU's National Equality Secretary, Rosheen Callender, said that “urgent action by Government was needed in order to address the pressing pensions problems confronting Irish society today."
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No easy solutions to pension reform but Government should act now

15.02.2007
The Government should start planning now to introduce reform of our pension policy to make it fully inclusive, declared ICTU Vice President, Rosheen Callender.
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Rosheen Callender, Equality Officer and Vice President of ICTU speaking at the Congress pensions summit on February 14, 2007 in Croke Park, Dublin.

Billy Fury’s song from the ‘60s - Half Way to Paradise - isn’t particularly appropriate for St. Valentine’s Day – but it does capture some of what I feel about our pensions system at the moment and it just came into my head when I was thinking about getting started on this paper. The chorus goes:

“You lead me half-way to paradise,
So near, yet so far away …”

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