Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Today I propose to defer to another time the Castletown gate access to allow negotiations take place. Instead, I will raise another issue which affects the Defence Forces. Specifically it relates to former members of the Defence Forces who may have incurred injury in the course of their duty and who have retired on pension only to find at a later stage there is a monthly deduction from their pension on foot of the award they may have received on a personal injury basis in the courts. I have raised this with the Tánaiste before. He is familiar with the subject. I ask that the practice be reviewed on the basis that the courts has made its decision. The injury took place and the award was made on that basis. It should not follow that the State seeks the right to recover part of the award from the pension, or all of it, years later.

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