Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants under the aegis of his Department who retired in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20063/15]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Information on the numbers of public servants retiring each year is not held centrally but the information available to my department indicates that the total number of public service pensioners increased by just over 4,500 in 2014. This is a net number; the change to pensioner numbers is increased by the number claiming pension benefits (retiring, preserved pensioners, survivor benefits and so on) and the number of exits from the schemes (i.e. deaths). Detailed records are maintained centrally with respect to the civil service pension schemes. These records indicate that there were 1,527 persons who claimed pension benefits from the civil service for the first time in 2014: of these, just over 1,300 were retirees from the civil service in 2014.