Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
6:30 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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The Minister is arguing for additional moneys on the basis that more people are retiring than was anticipated and that is fair enough and logical. Deputy Fleming raised the issue of averaging the payments and how that might work out. I would have thought that if the Minister is to come before the committee seeking additional moneys he would, as a matter of course, be able to give us a profile of the 1,100 people we are discussing. Who are they, what levels were they at and how do they fit? I do not propose that the Minister go through each individual pensioner.