Enterprise boards and pension legislation
Willie O’Dea asks when county enterprise-board dissolution legislation and defined-benefit pension-priority legislation will appear. The Taoiseach promises the enterprise-board Bill this session but gives no date for the pension measure pending Attorney General advice.
I wish to ask the Taoiseach about two items of legislation. When can we expect the legislation to provide for the dissolution of the county enterprise boards and transfer of their functions to Enterprise Ireland? On the question asked by Deputy Humphreys, can the Taoiseach say precisely when the legislation, promised often by the Minister for Social Protection, the purpose of which is to provide that in the event of a defined benefit pension scheme wind-up the priority order will be changed, will be introduced?
Comment on this
The legislation dealing with wind-up of the county enterprise boards will be introduced this session. On the second matter, detailed technical and complex advice is required. The Minister has asked the Attorney General for advice on the matter. I cannot give a definitive date for introduction of that legislation.