Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 621: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of occasions on which his Department has sanctioned or applied for the payment of a pension top-up or discretionary payment on retirement to a staff member of the Department or any agency under its remit in each of the past three years; the amount paid in each case; the position vacated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34348/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has neither sanctioned or applied for the payment of a pension top-up or discretionary payment on retirement to a staff member of my Department or any agency under the remit of my Department in the past three years.

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 622: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff who have been dismissed from his Department for misconduct, poor performance or failing to fulfil the terms of their contract in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34363/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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One member of staff from my Department has been dismissed in the period from 2004 to date in 2009.