For the last few months Senator Susan O'Keefe and TD Mary Mitchell O'Connor have been trying to get an answer to a query I sent them regarding access to Pension funds being limited to OP schemes only.
Mary Mitchell O'Connor was one of the first people to speak about people having access to some of their pension funds for their own rainy day.
However, both she and Susan, have received no reply to date from either the Dept or the Minister.
Bear in mind the government introduced the PRSA system in order to encourage more people to take up pensions and a lot of employers are more interested in providing PRSAs than OP's. But then the government exclude these people from this measure.
If you too are interested to raising this as an issue, please contact your TD.