A group representing some 2,500 retired Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann employees has complained about the delay in paying them a 5 per cent pension increase agreed last May. Photograph: Eric LukeFormer CIÉ workers are to march on the office of the Taoiseach in Cork on Monday to highlight the delay in paying them an increase in their pensions. The D1 stamp meant CIÉ workers were only paying 1 per cent of their wages into their statutory pension scheme. “The reasonable expectation of CIÉ employees was that their contribution to the statutory pension schemes would provide them with adequate incomes when they retired and into old age and CIÉ met that contractual obligation by paying annual pension increases up until 2008,“ said Bowen. He said that in May 2025, CIÉ announced pension increases up to 5 per cent, subject to changes to the current statutory pension schemes, and employees on the proposed scheme voted to accept it - but almost 10 months on, the CIÉ pensioners are still waiting.

Source: The Irish Times February 23, 2026 15:32 UTC