Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form the annual benefit to the Exchequer of the public sector pension related deduction since its introduction; if he will confirm when he intends to withdraw this emergency measure. [54030/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The annual benefit to the Exchequer of the civil service pension levy, as notified by Departments and offices, since its inception in 2009 is set out in the following table. The figures shown in the following table do not include pension related deductions arising from the Local Authorities.

In 2009, it was agreed that local authorities should retain employee pension related deductions (PRDs) and that the general purpose grant payments should be made net of these retained deductions. As part of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009, local authority employee PRDs were to be remitted back to the Exchequer. In the local government sector this was achieved after the baseline for the Exchequer contribution to the Local Government Fund was removed, which allowed the Exchequer to determine its annual contribution to the Local Government Fund with reference to the PRDs retained annually by the local authorities. Budgeted PRD in the local government sector amounted to €78.9m in respect of 2010; €78.1m in respect of 2011; and €78.3m in respect of 2012. The question of discontinuing the PRD does not arise at this time.