Mr. Diarmuid Collins:

In the UCC pensions statute before the transfer, if someone transferred from another university or elsewhere in the public sector into UCC as an employee and into the UCC pension scheme, that transfer of service was reckoned for added years if that person was in a post for added years when they retire following the transfer. We recognise that the interpretation is now made by the Ministers. In the Minister's interpretation, that transfer in service is no longer recognised when it comes to the totality of pension entitlement, so we have a disconnect.