asked the Minister for Transport and Power if an employee (name and address supplied) of the Great Northern Railway Company who worked for forty-six years for GNR and then worked one year and nine months for Dundalk Engineering Works, and on redundancy received £250 plus ten shillings per week from Dundalk Engineering Works, will receive any increase in pension as a result of recent CIE decisions.
Written Answers. - Redundant GNR Employee.
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The answer is in the negative for the reason that the pensioner to whom the Deputy refers was in the employment of Dundalk Engineering Works Ltd., now the Industrial Engineering Company Ltd., Dundalk, at the date of retirement and CIE have no responsibility in the case. The part of the funds of the Great Northern Railway wages grade pension scheme appropriate to the employees transferred to the Dundalk Engineering Works Ltd. in 1958 was assigned to that company by section 16 of the Great Northern Railway Act, 1958 and the Company became responsible for the management of the pension scheme subject to the provisions of the Act.