asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider granting, on humanitarian grounds, a small percentage increase in their pensions to the small number of transferred officers with statutory rights under Article 10 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929, and especially to those who, through worry and overwork in the formative years of the Irish Civil Service, had to retire through ill-health before the normal retiring age, on a pension of less than one-third of their salary.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Civil Service Pensions.
Officers who transferred to the Irish Civil Service and later retired therefrom for reasons of age or ill-health are eligible for any penions increases already provided or to be provided in forthcoming legislation for civil servants generally, subject to the conditions and limitations governing such increases. I regret that I cannot undertake to grant any increases in the compensation payable to transferred officers who retired under Article 10 of the Treaty with the benefits of that Article.