THE country’s largest single pension scheme is to be reviewed by the Pensions Board following concerns that thousands of construction firms are flouting the law, depriving workers of death and sickness benefits.

HUNDREDS of construction firms are being pursued by the Pensions Board for ripping off employees by not paying pension contributions.

BUILDERS' labourers, angry at a multi-million euro construction industry fraud, yesterday demanded that the Government investigate and jail those responsible.

OVER €35 million is being pocketed every year by thousands of construction firms that are cheating 50,000 employees of mandatory pension entitlements.

We are all too well aware of the rigorous campaign being waged by the Revenue Commissioners against those tax evaders who used the bogus non-resident schemes, on the advice of various financial institutions, to escape their legitimate tax obligations.