Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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I can provide the figures thanks to Deputy Mary Lou McDonald who submitted a number of useful parliamentary questions on this issue recently. Before reading the figures for the total numbers of Civil Service pensioners and the amounts they receive, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform made a crucial point in this regard recently when he noted that 1% of public service pensioners were in receipt of pensions in excess of €60,000 and that only a few hundred of them had a pension in excess of €100,000. During a debate in the House in Private Members' time some weeks ago I asked how many retired civil servants, politicians and judges had a pension of more than €100,000. I believe I am correct in stating the figure provided was 84. The precise figures as of September 2012 are as follows: 84 retired civil servants had a pension of more than €100,000, while a further 28 former Ministers and judges who come within the ambit of the Vote of the Houses of the Oireachtas were in receipt of a pension of more than €100,000.