Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the numbers of civil and public servants who are members of the single public service pension scheme, by grade and by employer, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48502/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Single Public Service Pension Scheme, which was launched on 1 January 2013, is the default pension scheme for persons commencing employment in the public service, including civil servants, from that date onward.

The Single Scheme is administered at workplace level by each public service body (termed a relevant authority) to which the Scheme applies.

My Department does undertake an annual census of members across all relevant authorities at the end of each year.  The last annual census undertaken was for the year ended 31 December 2016 and this noted some 64,000 persons were enrolled as members of the Single Scheme at that time.  This number includes significant numbers of temporary staff, not all of whom would have remained in post subsequent to 31 December 2016.  My Department does not hold information on the grades of individual members of the Single Scheme.  A breakdown of total membership advised by relevant authorities to my Department at 31 December 2016 has been provided to the Deputy and is outlined in the table at the following link: