Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 431: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a retired teacher works as a temporary teacher for the purposes of filling in or replacing a permanent teacher in a local school, that for the number of days that they work, they are unable to receive their appropriate pension entitlements for those days; if he will confirm that this is the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Where the nature of the pension awarded to the teacher on initial retirement does not debar a return to employment, such a return to work may give rise to abatement of pension. Abatement is a standard feature of public service pension schemes and is the mechanism used to ensure that the combined earnings (pension plus pay) do not exceed the uprated pay on which the pension is based. Where a teacher returns in a temporary capacity for any period of wholetime daily employment and is in receipt of incremental salary and allowances for that period, pension is stopped.