Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43022/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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I understand that the individual concerned is a pensioner who has been re-engaged by his former employer. The (Pensions) Abatement Act 1965 provides a legislative basis for the suspension or reduction of an allowance (pension) where, after retirement, a scheme pensioner is employed in an agency / organisation in which the superannuation scheme paying the pension applies. In such cases remuneration and pension, for the specified period of re-employment, should not exceed the uprated remuneration for the post from which s/he retired. I am informed by the employer that the individual concerned works 91% of the wholetime equivalent (WTE) in this instance and that under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, 2009 the pension related deduction is payable on all earnings from this employment.

However, the pension related deduction does not apply to pensions and, accordingly, no such deduction has been made from the pension in payment to the person concerned.