Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number and percentage of civil servants who retire at or above retirement age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20074/23]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I and my Department are responsible for the civil service pension schemes, which cover members of established and unestablished civil service and State industrial schemes.

The authorities responsible for the administration of the large number of pension schemes operating in the various sectors of the 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.

The mandatory retirement age for civil service employees is based on their date of joining the service. Since 2018, the mandatory retirement age for the majority of civil servants is age 70; however, there is no mandatory retirement age for employees who joined the service between 2004 and 2012.

Over 2022, there were 1,960 new retirees from the civil service. Of these, there were 13 retirees (i.e. 0.7% of 1,960 retirees) aged 70 and 12 retirees over age 70 (i.e. 0.6% of 1,960 retirees).