asked the Minister for Finance if he has yet considered that portion of the Report of the Brennan Commission which deals with superannuation in the case of civil servants, transferred officers, and if he is prepared to count unestablished service for the purpose of calculating pensions of these servants who have served for long continuous periods in an unestablished capacity, and if he will state if those who were heard by said commission, and who are now out, shall be dealt with retrospectively.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Pensions of Transferred Civil Servants.
The Government has decided in principle to accept the recommendation contained in paragraph 209 of the Commission of Inquiry into the Civil Service (1932-1935), based on a suggestion made to that body by the Civil Service Federation, that an actuarial investigation should be made into the existing scheme of superannuation benefits applicable to the Civil Service generally before any important variations of the existing scheme are considered. The necessary arrangements towards this end are under preliminary consideration in my Department. Pending the results of the actuarial investigation, I am not in a position to make any statement as regards departure in practice from the existing methods of reckoning for superannuation purposes unestablished service in the various grades of the Civil Service.