Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that employment scheme supervisors who were working for FÁS up until its dissolution and who continue to work in that capacity for SOLAS and who paid pension contributions during their time at FÁS may have their prior contributions counted towards their current occupational pension plan with SOLAS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39506/14]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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SOLAS was established on 27th October 2013 and FÁS was dissolved as part of this process. All staff employed by FÁS on the day immediately before that date were transferred to SOLAS on the establishment day under Section 28 of the Further Education and Training Act 2013. Section 29 of the Act provides that any previous service as a member of staff with FÁS will be regarded as a period of reckonable service and where a superannuation benefit falls due for payment for these staff the benefit will be calculated on the basis of pensionable service with SOLAS aggregated with previous reckonable service with FÁS.