Hanafin urges workers to get private pensions

The Minister for Social and Family Affairs is urging workers to make provisions for when they retire.

Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that in the key 30-to-65 age group, only 61% of people have a pension, less than the government target of 70.

Mary Hanafin has said the Government is to start looking at the role of the state pension and what people should be doing.

"The state pension only gives a basic wage and it does not replace what you earned when you were working," she said.