Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 April 2015
710. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of retired public service pensions in payment in each year, from 2008 to 2014, under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16047/15]
View answer711. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total value of public sector pensions in payment; the average public sector pension in 2014, under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16058/15]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 710 and 711 together.
The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was established in June 2011 and pensions due to staff who have retired are paid by the Paymaster-General. As such pensions are not a charge on the Vote of my Department, it does not hold information in relation to such pensions.
The numbers of public service pensions paid by bodies operating under the aegis of my Department at the end of 2011 and at the end of each year since then are shown in the following table.
|
Year: |
Number of pensions paid at 31 December |
|
2011 |
259 |
|
2012 |
290 |
|
2013 |
305 |
|
2014 |
332 |
I am advised that the annual value of such pensions being paid as at 31 December 2014 was €6,528,415, giving an average annual pension of €19,664.
