Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys insists that auto-enrolment will come in this year

[Dr Strangelove]

The payments will start within a few months of launch.

Indeed, but they will be very small to begin with.

In any case the payments part is exactly what DSP should be doing themselves as this is their bread and butter!

 

[Towger]

Fixed now.


It’s not really. It’s just tax collection and asset management for now, with payments in future.

The state already does tax collection (Revenue) and asset management (NTMA). Why anyone thought that DSP should reinvent the wheel is beyond me.

It is the spending of hundreds of millions on reinventing/doubling up existing systems which annoys me.

 

[T McGibney]

The optics of having Revenue collecting pension contributions sound terrible from a marketing perspective,

 

[Towger]

The optics of having Revenue collecting pension contributions sound terrible from a marketing perspective,

Employees will have no interaction with the actual collection process, it will just be another 'tax' Revenue collects along with IT, PRSI Employee, PRSI Employer and LPT. But with Revenue doing the collection they will have the reassurance that if their employer fails to pay actions will be swiftly taken.

 

[T McGibney]

Employees will have no interaction with the actual collection process, it will just be another 'tax' Revenue collects along with IT, PRSI Employee, PRSI Employer and LPT. But with Revenue doing the collection they will have the reassurance that if their employer fails to pay actions will be swiftly taken.

Still looks terrible.
Taxes are involuntary. Pension contributions are the opposite.
Having Revenue involved will impress upon employers that they are better off minimising employer contributions or or avoiding them altogether.
Why create yet another stick for your own back?