asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state generally the period of absence from employment due to illness which is not regarded as breaking the continuity of employment of a servant of a local authority.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Continuity of Local Authority Employment.
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Presumably the question relates to continuity of employment for pension purposes. The Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956, provides that a pensionable servant of a local authority retains his pensionable status continuously until the servant himself terminates it by giving notice in writing in the month of April of any year to the local authority that his name is to be removed from the register of pensionable servants, or until he dies or otherwise ceases to be a servant, and the local authority decide not to so employ him again. Absence from work on any particular occasion, whether due to illness or otherwise, and regardless of the duration of the absence, does not alter this position.
That is what I thought, but some people seem to take a different interpretation.