ieExplains: What do employers need to know about pension auto-enrolment as registration opens? 

Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary with Roma Burke the chair of the Board of the National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority and its chief executive Dermot Griffin. 

Employer registration for the long-awaited pension auto-enrolment system, My Future Fund, opened on December 1 with businesses across the country being asked to register in advance of January 1, 2026, after which the first contributions are expected to be paid.

The Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act was signed into law in July last year and up until now, Ireland was the only country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that didn’t have an auto-enrolment pension system set up.