Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 611: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if employees in the education sector on disability should have to pay pension levy for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7983/10]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Under section 2 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 a person is liable to pay the pension related deduction if he or she is a public servant on or after 1 March 2009 and is a member of a public service pension scheme, is entitled to a benefit under such a scheme or receives a payment in lieu of membership of such a scheme.

Where a public servant, including a public servant in the education sector, although absent from employment through ill-health, is in receipt of remuneration, (as distinct from a disability pension), and accruing pensionable service for the period involved, that person is liable to pay the pension related deduction in respect of the remuneration s/he receives. In contrast a retired public service employee in receipt of a pubic service pension does not pay the pension related deduction in respect of that pension.