Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014
10:00 am
Mr. Tom Boland:
The State then takes over the liability for paying pensions. For a variety of technical and accounting reasons, that pension scheme was closed and a new one was opened and all new staff entered into the new scheme, so there are two schemes running at the same time. Since the closed scheme has older staff members who are retiring there is a draw-down on that and because staff in the new scheme are younger there is no draw down on that. The two schemes to a very great extent cancel each other out. There is no sense of a pot of money sitting in a bank account someplace and a huge deficit sitting some place else. It is more of an accounting issue.
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