Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who is a civil servant was not allowed join a pension scheme for civil servants but is still required to pay the pension levy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25278/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The employee concerned is an employee of the Health Service Executive. All public sector employees, including full time and part time employees on the payroll, who are, or are entitled to be members of a public service occupational pension scheme or pension arrangement are subject to the deduction provided for under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, 2009.

Individual employees who opted out of the occupational pension scheme, as this employee did, may be entitled to a non-pensionable gratuity on reaching retirement age as provided for under the scheme rules.