Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
2:00 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
To be very clear, and I am not being awkward, we will be very prompt as we go along but I never agreed to a ten minute slot for anything. It was not discussed with us. We will get through the business very promptly. We will fly through some of the other subheads. We might take another few minutes here but I will not be caught by a ten minute limit. I do not think the Minister would be happy the conversation was being curtailed.
In his press release, the Minister said that the pension is then subject to a reduction under the same legislation of between 2% and 5%, which reduces the benefit. That will not apply if this runs to the end of the agreement. That would have happened to people if they had gone this year. Under the Haddington Road agreement, they would have experienced the pension reduction of 2% to 5%. Now that this is being rolled out to the end of 2016, anybody going after that will not be caught by that cut in the Haddington Road agreement. Is that correct? The Minister might just explain those points.
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