RTE  (07.05,2018) The Government is to launch a public awareness campaign on false self-employment amid concerns about the rise in workers deprived of entitlements by being forced to work as self-employed. Workers categorised as self-employed may lose out on many entitlements under employment legislation, including holiday pay, sick pay, the national minimum wage, redundancy pay, as well as unemployment and other benefits.

Irishtimes (10.04.2018) The introduction of two weeks paid parental leave in the next budget could cost the State about €30 million per year, Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty has said.

Irish Times (01.03.2018) Universal welcome for auto-enrolment of workers in a pension scheme, though Ibec worries about implementation

The Sun (22.03.2018)  Pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents, widows, jobseekers, maternity and paternity benefit recipients will all see payments rise by €5 a week from Monday March 26

irishtimes (05.02.2018) Pension reforms announced with fanfare by Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty will benefit far fewer women than campaigners had originally expected. The changes, announced last month, were designed to take account of the fact that many women had big gaps in their social-insurance contribution records because of time they had taken out of the workforce to raise a family or take care of older relatives. A lot of these women had seen their right to a pension disappear or the payment reduce under a tightening of the rules in September 2012.

Irish Times 06.12.2017) The new changes will not apply to frontline groups such as gardaí and firefighters Thousands of public service staff will in future be permitted to work until the age of 70 under new Government returns.

Irish Examiner (18.09.2017) The Government is planning a campaign to get older people “sitting” on the live register back to work and to also encourage senior workers to put off retirement, writes Juno McEnroe.

irishtimes.com (01.09.2017) Proposed legislation would remove restrictions on using the card as proof of identity

Independent (27.07.2017) A large majority of PAYE taxpayers are in favour of a new automatic pension scheme being introduced for those who have no occupational pension.The survey from tax specialists Taxback.com found that 84pc of people would be in favour of an auto-enrolment type scheme.

Dublin Live (11.06.2017) New figures show the Department of Social Protection netted billions investigating social welfare fraud when Ireland was in the midst of recovering from economic collapse.