Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the basis on which is it proposed to reduce the pension entitlements arising from employment and early retirement on ill-health grounds as per letter dated 4 May 2011 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19426/11]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The person named retired on ill-health grounds and is in receipt of a pension under the Pension Scheme for Non Established State Employees. At retirement his pension was integrated with (i.e. reduced to take account of) the appropriate rate of Illness Benefit payable by the Department of Social Protection.

Under the terms of the Pension Scheme, his occupational pension fell to be re-calculated to take account of his entitlement to the State Pension payable by the Department of Social Protection from the date of his 66th birthday. As the rate of the State Pension is higher than the rate of Illness Benefit, the amount of the occupational pension is consequently lower.