Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who retired and or exited employment in the public service in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43673/19]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The authorities responsible for the administration of the large number of pension schemes operating in the various sectors of the Irish public service are, in general, the relevant employers and Ministers in those sectors.

It would be a matter for those sectorial authorities, including relevant Ministers, to supply such information as may be available in respect of the number of retirees in each year to those individual pension schemes.

I and my Department are responsible for the civil service pension schemes, which cover personnel in established and unestablished civil service and State Industrial posts.

We would not be in a position to provide year to date figures for 2019 until such time as the full year has elapsed and the Appropriation Account for 2019 has been audited. 

There has been 7,193 retirements from the civil service from 2014 to 2018 inclusive. The retirements are broken out by year in the following table.

Data in respect of public servants exiting employment, other than through retirements, should be requested from each of the sectors in the Public Service. Data in respect of the Civil Service should be requested from each Government Department.