Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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824. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority pensions are index linked; when the increases take effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10768/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The setting of pay and pension policy for the public sector is a matter for the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. However, my Department has general responsibility for pay and pension policy for the local government sector in consultation with that Department.

Current policy is that retired employees of local authorities that are members of the Local Government Superannuation Scheme – a pre-2013 pension scheme – will have post-retirement pension increases linked to pay as agreed, currently under the Public Services Agreement 2024-2026.

As such, following any notifications on pay and pension adjustments issuing from the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, I direct local authority Chief Executives to make the appropriate changes to pay and pensions that come about under national pay agreements. The most recent of these being a circular that issued recently, advising of pay adjustments from 1 March 2025, arising under the Public Services Agreement 2024 – 2026.

Retired employees of local authorities who are members of the Single Scheme, the pension scheme applicable to new entrant public servants from 2013 onwards, have their pension increases linked to the Consumer Price Index (CPI).