asked the Minister for Finance if he will state in respect of those officials and State servants mentioned in the Book of Estimates, 1949-50, who were awarded Military Service Pensions (a) the total number of persons affected; and (b) the total saving to public funds by the operation of the sections prohibiting double pensions in the Military Service Pensions Acts, 1924 and 1934; and, further, if he will give the same particulars in respect of those awarded Military Service Pensions and who are remunerated from the Central Fund.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Prohibition of Double Pensions.
The number of officials and State servants mentioned in the Book of Estimates for 1949/50 who were awarded military service pensions is 918.
As I indicated to the Deputy on the 24th May, the saving to public funds affected by the operation of subsection (2) of Section 8 of the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924, and subsection (2) of Section 20 of the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934, could not be ascertained without an expenditure of official time and labour which would not be warranted.
The provisions of the Military Service Pensions Acts referred to above prohibit the reckoning of the same period of time for both a military service pension and a pension under the Superannuations Acts (including the Superannuations and Pensions Act, 1923), and do not apply to pensions paid out of the Central Fund; accordingly the last part of the question does not arise.