asked the Minister for the Public Service the reasons employees in the Office of Public Works who were members of the auxiliary services during the 1939-1945 Emergency do not get credit for this service in relation to the pension and gratuity schemes of the Office of Public Works similar to employees who served in the regular armed forces of the State and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers. - OPW Employees.
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Army service during the Emergency may be taken into account for civil service superannuation purposes provided certain conditions are met. One of these conditions is that the service must have been reckonable for purposes of the Defence Forces (Pensions) Schemes. Service in the auxiliary services is not reckonable for purposes of those schemes because it was not whole-time paid service and it cannot, accordingly, be reckoned for civil service superannuation purposes.