Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 309: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the names, grade and cost of staff who have been rehired following retirement in his Department and State agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22893/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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It is assumed the Deputy is interested in establishing whether any staff of my Department or agencies under my remit who retired and benefited from the transitional arrangements that operated up to 29 February 2012 under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009, have subsequently been re-employed.

The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 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 181 staff retired from my Department and the agencies under my remit, excluding An Garda Síochána.

Of these 181, only one staff member who was a Governor in the Prison Service has been re-engaged on a fixed term contract to meet pressing operational and transformation requirements in the Prison Service. The total cost of this contract to date is €22,580.