Mr. Don Culliton:

For example, if I had 20 years service and I was injured on the job, the maximum additional pension payment that I can get if I am being retired from the service is six and two third years. That would only bring me up to 26 and two third years of service and I would still be short from a pensionable point of view.

They are the same superannuation rules that civil servants generally operate under. The injury warrant scheme recognises that particular issue and allows for additional payments to be made. However, injury warrants are a matter for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the application from the officer concerned must go to that Department. I have worked in other areas of the public service and, generally speaking, injury warrants are not common. In my best recollection over the last ten years, little or no injury warrants have been granted.