Generally a contract of employment will contain a specific retirement age and this is a matter of contract between the relevant parties.
I understand that the Department of Social Protection is chairing an inter-Departmental Group on Working and Retirement issues, on which my Department is represented. This Group has been initiated to consider cross-departmental policy issues that will support longer working. In this regard, the Department of Social Protection arranged a Working and Retirement Forum in Croke Park on 12 December 2012 at which a broad range of interest groups were represented, including those interest groups representing older persons.