Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 454: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will set out in tabular form the number of staff who retired from the defence sector in each year since 2009; the total gratuity payments made to retiring staff in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30856/12]

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 459: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff who retired from his Department in each year since 2009 and the total gratuity payments made to retiring staff in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30878/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 454 and 459 together.

The number of personnel who retired in each year since 2009, to date, with entitlement to gratuity immediately on retirement, as well as the total gratuity payments made to retiring personnel in each of these years, are shown in tabular form below: Table 1 – retired members of the Permanent Defence Force (PDF) Table 2 – retired civil servants from the Department of Defence Table 3 – retired civilian employees employed with the PDF

The annual cost of retirement gratuities shown includes payments in relation to some personnel who retired towards year-end and to whom payment was actually made at the start of the following year. The data does not include lump sums paid in respect of severance and redundancy-type payments (specifically for those in Tables 2 and 3) or for deaths in service generally. Table 1

Note: These figures include 82 military personnel (18 in 2009, 21 in 2010, 27 in 2011 and 16 in 2012) who retired with entitlement to a short-service gratuity only (i.e. with no pension). The figures also include 13 members of the Army Nursing Service (4 in 2009, 3 in 2010, 2 in 2011 and 4 in 2012) who retired with entitlement to pension only (i.e. with no gratuity).

Table 2

Table 3