The legislation to raise the pension age to 68 and reverse the cut in the minimum wage has passed all stages in the Dáil.
The measures in the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill mean the age at which a worker is entitled to the State pension will rise to 66 in 2014, 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028.
The legislation also reinstates the minimum wage to its previous level of €8.65 per hour.
The Government side won the vote 91 to 30 and the Bill will now go to the Seanad.
Earlier, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore defended the Government's decision to finish all stages of the Bill today.
Mr Gilmore said the Government had given a commitment to reverse the cut in the minimum wage by 1 July and that the Bill had to pass all stages in the Seanad.
He said Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton had given over most of yesterday to debating the committee stage of the Bill in the Dáil.
The Opposition objected to the guillotining of the Bill.
Fianna Fáil TD Éamon Ó Cuív said the Government had given an undertaking that important bills would not be guillotined. He said this was a Bill that would affect the lives of many.
Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said there was no need to guillotine the Bill as there was plenty of time to allow TDs debate the remaining amendments.
Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins said Government backbenchers should be given time to explain why they are supporting what he called 'reactionary measures that would condemn workers to stay at work until 68'.
People Before Profit Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett said the Slovenian people had been given a referendum on the same issue, to which they said no, while Dáil deputies were being given limited time to debate it in the House.
