Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 143: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if persons employed as telephonists with the Department of Posts and Telegraphs during the 1960s and up to 1976 are entitled to a partial pension based on their years of service. [5984/11]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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In general, all civil servants are eligible for superannuation benefits provided they satisfy the qualifying conditions outlined in the Superannuation Schemes. Civil servants who resigned on or after 1st June 1973 are entitled to have their Superannuation benefits preserved and these become payable on reaching minimum retirement age, i.e. age 60 or 65 depending on which Scheme they are members of. Telephonists appointed to the Department of Posts and Telegraphs by the Civil Service Commissions would have had Civil Service status and would have been members of the Pension Scheme. However, it should be noted that some female civil servants may have been paid a marriage gratuity in lieu of superannuation benefits in which case there is no entitlement to any benefits on reaching minimum retirement age.