Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Under the terms of the settlement that we agreed with the unions late last year on reaching retirement age, eligible CE supervisors and assistant supervisors will receive a once-off ex gratiapayment in respect of time employed in the CE scheme since 2008.

People who have retired since 2008, who have reached retirement age, are now eligible to apply for the payment. In recent months, an administrative and ICT system to accept applications and process payments has been put in place in the Department. We wrote to approximately 720 ex-supervisors who had retired since 2008 and we received approximately 664 applications. Some 134 are ready to issue and 430 are being processed. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has questioned the timing of the payments. We wrote back to the Department to let it know that we are ready to issue the payments and we await feedback in that regard. I reassure the Deputy that the money is there and it is ready to be issued, but in short a technicality in the administrative process has arisen that we want to iron out as soon as possible.

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