How to fix our retirement mess before it gets any worse

With pensions auto-enrolment on the way, how can we convince workers to stay the course?

In a week when most of the nation was busy making contingency plans for Storm Emma by stocking up on food and fuel, our government published a contingency plan of another sort in its Roadmap for Pension Reform.

Action on the pensions front has been promised several times in the last while, and is to be encouraged. Ireland faces a pension gap of €560 billion, twice our annual GDP, which is growing as ...