Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 404: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if any remuneration, stipend, expense facility, financial facility or similar payment is being made from the Exchequer to any senior public servant who has retired from his Department beyond any accrued pension entitlements; if any such payment has been sanctioned for current senior public servants who are about to retire from his Department; if he will list the name, positions and details of any relevant moneys paid or scheduled to be paid of any person in receipt of or sanctioned to receive such a payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8268/12]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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No such payments are being made to persons who have retired from my Department. One member of staff, retiring at end February, who has been the Irish member of the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for over ten years and whose last term of appointment is to expire on 15 June, 2012, will attend the 29th session of the Commission from 8th to 21st April 2012 inclusive. In accordance with the rules for the payment of retired public servants, he will be paid under the "abatement principle" which provides for the abatement of pension for civil service pensioners who are re-employed in the civil service such that the pensioner's total income from pay and pension for the period should not exceed the salary which would be payable had the civil servant not retired. Travel and subsistence costs will also be paid in accordance with standard rates.