Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
2:00 am
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
There is just one issue that I want to ask about which is related to Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances. Specifically, I refer to the An Post pensioners who were transferred to An Post in 1984. At that time, as I am sure the Minister is aware, under the Postal and Telecommunication Services Act, they were guaranteed that they would not have less favourable pension conditions than if they had remained in the Civil Service. However, that has not transpired and has not been the case. As the Minister knows, he has a role every year in approving an increase in their pension but when that request comes in January, very modest increases in their pension do not materialise until November and that creates more hardship. Why is section 46 of the Postal and Telecommunication Services Act 1983 not being applied with respect to this group of workers? They should have the same treatment, guaranteed by law, as if they had remained in the Civil Service.
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