Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of former public servants recruited before 6 April 1995 who are currently receiving a public sector pension including both pensions funded by the Exchequer and through the Local Government Fund, and those pension schemes for which he has responsibility; the age profile of those public servants; if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of public sector pensioners in the following parameters between €1,000 intervals up to €20,000 and those on more than €20,000. [5890/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The information requested in the question is not readily available in my Department.

In Public Service Pension schemes, the minimum preserved pension age is 60. Accordingly, it would be expected that the majority of persons currently in receipt of pensions from either local authorities or agencies under the aegis of my Department would have been recruited prior to 6 April 1995.

The information regarding pensioner numbers, in the format requested, is not available in my Department. However, as at November 2012, there were 18,800 persons in receipt of pensions from local authorities, of whom over 14,500 had pensions of less than €20,000. There were approximately 260 persons in receipt of pensions from agencies under the aegis of my Department, of whom 115 had pensions of less than €20,000.

The pensions of former employees of my Department are a matter for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.