Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
2:30 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I am not inquiring about the Minister of State's personal comfort or otherwise, my question was more a reference to his political judgment and comfort on these matters. If he was to revisit that FEMPI framework protecting all pensions of €60,000 and lower, which covers the vast majority of public service workers, and revisit the levies in a progressive way, we have demonstrated clearly that there is a saving of €10 million to be made. The Minister of State may dismiss that in the general budgetary arithmetic.
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