Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 272: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if persons employed as telephonists in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs by the Civil Service Commission in the 1970s are entitled to pensions; and the age at which same is entitled. [37864/09]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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I am assuming that the Deputy is referring to female Civil Servants, employed as telephonists by Department of Posts and Telegraphs who were compelled to leave the Civil Service on marriage. The situation for those employees is that a marriage gratuity was paid in lieu of pension benefits and therefore there is no further entitlement to a Civil Service pension.