Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the full pension will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [9802/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The person in question retired from teaching on 31 July 1996 and was awarded a pension and lump sum under the secondary teachers' superannuation scheme. His benefits were calculated on his reckonable pensionable service of 28 years and 136 days and on his retiring pensionable pay consisting of the maximum point of the common basic salary scale for teachers together with allowances in respect of his principal's post and his academic qualifications.

It appears that the retired principal feels that he may not be in receipt in pension of the appropriate category of the principal's allowance. He is aware of new principal's allowances which were introduced under the PCW agreement restructuring pay deals and which, in accordance with public service pensions policy in regard to restructuring increases, were not passed on to principals who retired before 1 September 1996. The allowances in question are the three new categories of principal's allowance which were introduced above the former maximum category. Since the category of allowance held by the retired principal at retirement was below the former maximum, it was not in any way affected by these new provisions. I can confirm that the retired principal is in receipt in pension of the correct amount of the principal's allowance.