Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of employees in his Department who have expressed an interest in retiring ahead of the changes to the public sector pension schemes that are to come into force in 2012. [25783/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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To date this Department has received seven applications from staff wishing to retire before 29th February 2012.

Requests for information on retirement are received in Personnel Section on an ongoing basis. Although there has been a significant increase in requests for estimates of pension entitlements from staff in the last number of months there is no way of knowing at this time how many of these requests will translate into actual retirements. Staff wishing to retire prior to 29th February 2012 have been asked to give the Department a minimum of three months notice of their intention to retire.