Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

The individuals in question are not State employees or public servants. The contributions they made through their working lives went into this pension fund. Public servants and officeholders make their pension contributions directly to the Exchequer, which subsequently pays their pensions. As the contributions in this case were made to a pension fund rather than the Exchequer, the responsibility falls to the fund's trustees to come up with a solution.

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