Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 488: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will support the following matter (details supplied). [31752/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Over the past five years one Secretary General and three Assistant Secretaries retired from my Department.

A total of €1,094,572 was paid in retirement lump sums and special severance gratuities to the four people in question. Retirement lump sums accounted for €979,613 of the overall total and represented between 1.21 times and 1.5 times the annual salary on which superannuation benefits are based.

All of these payments were made in accordance with the standard arrangements governing these matters.