Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 January 2011
211 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) is eligible for the public service pension levy despite the fact that the person is employed indirectly through a semi-State body, is not classified as a public sector worker and does not receive a public sector pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3324/11]
View answerI have been informed by the IBTS that the individual concerned is an employee of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service and a member of the IBTS Pension Scheme. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) is a statutory body under the aegis of my Department. A contributory funded pension scheme, sponsored by the employer, was set up for employees in 1963. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is a public service body as defined in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, 2009 and, consequently, its employees are public servants within the terms of that Act. The pension scheme in place comes under the scope of a public service pension scheme as defined in section 1 of the Act ‘provided for under an administrative measure to like effect as the Superannuation Acts'.
