asked the Minister for Finance whether in calculating the service for superannuation purposes of Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, Lower Regent Street, Muinebeag, who was retired on age grounds from the Ordnance Survey Department in 1936, a deduction of seven and a half years was made from his service; whether he is aware that Mr. Fitzgerald retired on a pension of approximately £25 per year and whether, in view of his long and satisfactory service in the Department, he will restore the deduction from service with a view to increasing the present inadequate pension.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Ordnance Survey Officer's Superannuation.
Service for pension in this case was reckoned in accordance with the practice which has been observed in the ordnance survey since 1906. On retirement, Mr. Fitzgerald had only five and a half years of actual established service, but he was allowed to reckon half his previous reckonable unestablished service of 15 years, which enabled a pension to be granted to him on 13 years' service. In view of the well-established practice governing the reckoning of service for pension in the ordnance survey a concession of the nature indicated by the Deputy cannot be made.