Seanad debates

Wednesday, 28 March 2007

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2007: Committee Stage

 

5:00 pm

Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

Why has the Pensions Board not provided me with this information since 1995? Why can it not answer the simple question about deferred members with frozen benefits? It can only lead me to believe that there is some kind of cover-up, as I said yesterday. Why must one become a Member of either House to try to get information from various Departments? It is not good enough that a statutory body does not provide information to members of the public or to an elected Member. We are making some progress in getting this delivered on Friday. However, this information has been requested for more than ten years and has been either denied or those requesting it have been fobbed off in one way or another. It is not good enough for one of our statutory bodies to behave in such a fashion.

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