Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Engagement with Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
2:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
I will ask the question. I appreciate that. I am sure the Minister will have time to respond. Regarding the 30 retired senior civil servants, as I said previously, to have to pay the chargeable excess tax, CET, you have to have a pension pot in excess of €2 million. It only applies to the portion that is above €2 million. You will be getting a tax-free lump sum of €200,000. The 30 individuals must be some of the most highly paid in the Civil Service. They have to be Secretaries General, in my view. What is the sum total of the money that was overpaid or not collected from these 30 individuals? We know in the case of one, it was €280,000, but can the Minister give us the sum total? Will the Minister clarify whether these individuals paid any chargeable excess tax or was it miscalculated?
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