Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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1508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has engaged with representatives of an Garda Síochána since January 2024 on the issues with the fast accrual (uniformed) single public service pension scheme for uniformed services recruited after 2013; if he will provide the dates of those engagements; if his Department have taken any action as a result of these engagements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18638/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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Public sector pensions, including Garda pensions, are a matter of Government policy overseen by the Department for Public Expenditure and Reform, who have a Pensions Policy Unit for this purpose. I understand that people who joined the Public Service post-January 2013 are all members of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme which provides for pension benefits based on career average earnings, including basic pay and pensionable allowances.

As Minister for Justice, I have no role in public sector pension policy, but I will continue to engage with all uniformed representative bodies on any matters they raise with my Department. I have already had meetings with each of the bodies since being appointed Minister for Justice.