Pension auto-enrolment oversight authority established 

Agency will handle the bulk of the administration of the scheme by determining eligibility for auto-enrolment and enrolling eligible employees

Social protection minister Dara Calleary with Roma Burke, chair of the board of NAERSA, and Dermot Griffin, chief executive of NAERSA. 

The Government has announced the formal establishment of the National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority (NAERSA) to administer the pension auto-enrolment scheme, which is due to come into effect from January 1.

The NAERSA board held its inaugural meeting earlier on Tuesday.