John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an appeal for inclusion in the pension scheme in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited and approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3357/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The general policy in relation to access to superannuation schemes in the public sector is that options are time limited. An option to join the Nominated Health Agencies Superannuation Scheme was offered to whole-time permanent employees of St Patrick's Centre, Kilkenny in 1981 and 1996. The 1996 option expired on 15 April 1996.

Where a person who has not exercised an option to join a scheme subsequently makes an appeal about the validity of their option or claims that they did not receive an option to which they were entitled, such appeals or claims are examined. If the facts of the case are established in favour of the claimant, a fresh option may be given to the individual. The person whose details have been supplied has made such a claim and the claim is being examined in my Department in consultation with the employing agency.