Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Secretaries General in receipt of public sector pensions while employed in a public body and-or State agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33384/15]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

My Department does not keep records of the post retirement employment of former Secretaries-General. However, the position has always been that following the completion of their term of appointment, if any Secretary-General is employed elsewhere in the Public Service, the general rules of abatement apply to their pension. This means that pension is abated so that the rate of pension, when added to the rate of pay or fee for the subsequent work, will not exceed their former rate of salary uprated to current values. This position was reinforced when I reviewed the TLAC terms in October 2011 and the effects of abatement were further extended by the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 to cover all public servants regardless of where in the Public Service they were re-employed.