Government aims for 70% pension cover

TOTAL pension cover across the public and private sectors is almost 51% of the workforce aged between 20 and 69.

This current state of the Irish pensions market will serve as a benchmark for the state's drive to get 70% of those at work into occupation and personal pension cover over the next 20 years.

Those who qualify for state pensions are excluded from the findings that were published yesterday by the Central Statistics Office in its Quarterly National Household Survey.