Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 460: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the number of public servants from County Clare who retired as part of the Croke Park early retirement scheme from positions in his Department or from State bodies under the aegis of his Department. [14205/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am taking the Deputy's question to refer to public servants who have retired in the period 1 January 2012 to 29 February 2012 and who benefited from the provisions under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 which provided for the superannuation benefits of public servants, who retired within a 'grace period' which ended on 29 February 2012, to be unaffected by the pay reductions introduced for all public servants with effect from 1 January 2010 under that Act.

In the period 1 January 2012 to 29 February 2012 a total of 14 public servants who retired from my Department or agencies under my remit were located in County Clare. A detailed breakdown is set out in the following table: