Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 268: To ask the Minister for Defence the position in relation to a person (details supplied) who wishes to transfer service with the FCA to the CBFSAI; if this FCA service on full-time security duties can be allowed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9754/05]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Defence Forces pensions schemes, pensionable service consists mainly of full-time service in the Permanent Defence Force, PDF. Service in An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil, FCA, is not generally reckonable as pensionable service. Exceptionally, however, service on full-time security duties by members of the FCA may be reckoned and may be aggregated with pensionable service in the PDF in the case only of former members of the FCA who were assimilated into the PDF under special arrangements made in 1982 and 1988-89 or who enlisted in the PDF outside of those special arrangements and were in service on 1 January 1990.

As the person in question is not within any of the categories mentioned, his FCA service is not reckonable under the Defence Forces pensions schemes and consequently is not transferable to any other State organisation for superannuation purposes.