Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any currently serving secretaries general retain TLAC terms with regards to their pension provisions; if he will provide a list of those secretaries general; if he will provide the total expected cost to the Exchequer of the pension pots to be paid out to the former on their retirement broken down by annual pension payment for each, lump sum payment on retirement and the additional special severance payment of half a year’s salary. [43488/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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As the Deputy will be aware, in October 2011 the Government significantly revised the TLAC terms to apply to Secretaries General newly appointed thereafter. The terms in place prior to that revision still apply to currently serving Secretaries General who were appointed under those terms. As I said in previous replies on this matter, the advice of the Office of the Attorney General is that the Government does not have discretion to change those earlier terms where such terms form part of an individual's terms of employment.

Officers appointed since October 2011 and subject to the revised terms are as follows:

Mr Seán Ó Foghlú, Education and Skills

Mr John Murphy, Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Mr John Moran, Finance

Mr Ambrose McLaughlin, Health

Mr Pádraig Dalton, CSO

Serving officers to whom the former TLAC terms continue to apply are as follows:

Mr Tom Moran, Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Mr Joe Hamill, Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Mr Liam O’Daly, Attorney-General’s Office

Mr Jim Breslin, Children and Youth Affairs

Mr Aidan Dunning, Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Mr Michael Howard, Defence

Ms Geraldine Tallon, Environment, Community and Local Government

Mr David Cooney, Foreign Affairs

Mr Brian Purcell, Justice and Equality

Ms Clare McGrath, Office of Public Works

Ms Josephine Feehily, Office of the Revenue Commissioners

Mr Robert Watt, Public Expenditure and Reform

Mr Adrian O’Neill, President’s Establishment

Ms Niamh O’Donoghue, Social Protection

Mr Martin Fraser, Taoiseach

Mr Tom O’Mahony, Transport, Tourism and Sport

It is not possible to provide the cost to the Exchequer of the pension entitlements of the individuals concerned as the definitive information necessary to make those calculations (e.g. service history, age and salary rate) will only be available at the actual time of retirement.