Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 112: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the former Revenue Commissioners in receipt of pensions; the names of the recipients; and the amount they receive from the pensions on an annual basis in tabular form. [38636/11]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The four former Chairmen of the Revenue Commissioners each receive a pension of €114,839.40 after Public Service Pension reduction. As is normal practice the names of the relevant Civil Servants are not included in the reply.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 113: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether public service pension reduction will be applied to the combined annual amount of ministerial and Oireachtas pensions of former individual office holders or if the reduction applied separately to each of the two annual pension figures. [38637/11]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The position at the moment is that the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010 provides for an average Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR), with effect from 1 January 2011 and estimated to save €100 million in a full year, of about 4% of pension in line with the following rates and bands:

Under the legislation passed last year, the PSPR applies separately to each individual public service pension. This was done for practical and legal reasons, including because the paying authorities who calculate and pay the pension and the PSPR will not normally be aware of other public service pension benefits and one cannot aggregate for some and not others. This also applies to former Ministers and former Oireachtas members, who receive two pensions at present. I intend to allow public service-wide pension aggregation to address this.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 114: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the former Ministers and taoisigh in receipt of ministerial and Oireachtas pensions; the names of the recipients; and the amount they receive from the pensions on an annual basis less the public service pension reduction, including the 20% reduction to be applied on pension income of more than €100,000 in tabular form. [38638/11]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The data sought by the Deputy is currently being collated and will be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible. Any inconvenience caused by this delay is regretted.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 115: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the former public servants in receipt of public sector pensions of more than €100,000 per year; the recipients' names; the final position they held in the public service on retirement, the gross pension amount they receive before the public sector pension reduction is applied and also the pension figure after the PSPR is applied in tabular form. [38646/11]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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It has not been possible to collate the data in the time available. It will be provided to the Deputy by the end of this week. Any inconvenience caused by this delay is regretted.