Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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586. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers between March 2011 and December 2013; the grade of the persons awarded the added years; and the number of added years awarded in each instance. [1364/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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My Department approves added years under pension scheme provisions for members of An Garda Síochána, certain public servants and unestablished civil servants. The added years arise in the context of ill-health retirements and deaths in service and the details of the pensions awarded that included added years between March 2011 and December 2013 are as follows:

Ill-Health

The pension benefits in respect of a death in service provide for added years in the calculation of the death gratuity and also the annual pension payable to a surviving spouse. When a surviving spouse’s pension is payable, the added years approved by my Department represent the difference between actual service and maximum pensionable service.