Written answers

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Department of Education and Skills

Departmental Staff Rehiring

Photo of Terence FlanaganTerence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff that are drawing down retirement pensions from the public sector or Civil Service and that have been brought back on contract work or temporary contracts to work in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44114/14]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department collates information in relation to individuals who retired from the civil service and are re-engaged to undertake specific tasks.

Retired civil servants are engaged from time to time to perform various defined tasks that require their particular expertise and experience. Payments made to retired civil servants in respect of such work are determined in accordance with the abatement principle whereby total earnings in any year, inclusive of pension, cannot exceed the retirement salary of the retired individual. The number of civil servants re-engaged for last year 2013 was 31. As data in relation to the re-engagement of retired civil servants is compiled retrospectively at the commencement of each new year, details in relation to 2014 will not be available until early 2015.

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