Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who are on public or civil service pensions who have been recruited for work on any basis, either permanent or temporary, under the remit of his Department in 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39542/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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One Assistant Secretary was re-engaged by my Department on a part-time contract basis in 2012 which expired at the end of the EU Presidency on the 28^thJune 2013. A Principal Officer was re-engaged on a part-time contract from October 2012 to June 2013 to work on specific matters related to the Irish EU Presidency of the EU.

A total of sixteen persons have also been engaged on a contract for services basis for limited periods from 2012 to date as contractors to carry out important management functions within my Department's laboratory and veterinary network.

Normal pension abatement rules have been applied in all these cases.