Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of payments made for all public sector pensions, including Civil Service pensions, over the past five years, in tabular form; the projected cost for these over the next five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56415/22]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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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.

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 sectoral 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.

Total pension payments to Civil Servants in each of the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 are outlined below.  We would not be in a position to provide final figures for 2022 until such time as the full year has elapsed and the Appropriation Account for 2022 has been audited. This will be completed over the course of 2023.

Total payments to Civil Servants in each of the years 2017 to 2021