Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 708: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of staff in his Department, including all authorities, agencies or other institutions under the aegis of his Department, who have applied for the incentivised early retirement scheme and the incentivised career break scheme; the number who have been made redundant in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29307/09]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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Nine members of staff have applied for the Incentivised Career Break Scheme and five members of staff have applied for the Incentivised Scheme for Early Retirement in my Department. A total of 14 civilian employees opted to retire in the past 12 months under voluntary early retirement schemes in connection with the closure of certain military facilities. As part of these schemes, the employees in question received statutory redundancy payments and other applicable benefits.

The relevant bodies under the remit of my Department are the Civil Defence Board, the Board of Coiste an Asgard and the Army Pensions Board. In relation to these bodies, I can confirm that no applications were received for the Incentivised Scheme for Early Retirement or the Incentivised Career Break Scheme. I can also confirm that there were no redundancies in these bodies in the past twelve months.