Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

-----are in receipt of annual pensions in excess of €100,000. As the Minister is aware, civil servants make up just one tenth of the public sector, yet the Minister's Department tells us it does not know the total number of public servants in receipt of similar pensions. That is a disgrace, and it reflects a laissez-faire attitude on the Minister's part to these bumper pension payouts.

In response to a question put to him by Sinn Féin leader, Deputy Gerry Adams, the Minister admitted that 13 former judges receive annual pensions of over €100,000.

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