The table shows the number of staff who retired from my Department from 2008 to date (10 February); the amount paid to those officers in lump sums; and the annual estimated gross pension costs per annum associated with those retired staff members which does not include the Public Service Pension Reduction. Details of future retirements up to 2015, apart from those in respect of staff members who may reach maximum retirement age in that period, are not readily available and due to the pressure of work in the HR pensions area at present I am not in a position to provide these details. I can, however, inform the Deputy that a further 202 staff members have applied to retire before 29 February 2012 and their applications are currently being processed.
During the period from 2008 no severance payments were made to staff retiring from my Department. Figures in relation to the loss of the pension levy from employees who have retired from my Department and the loss of superannuation payments from retired staff of my Department are not available:
|
Year
|
Number of retirements
|
Lump sums
|
Pensions
|
|
2008
|
80
|
€5,094,146.97
|
€1,666,127.75
|
|
2009
|
257
|
€11,998,046.98
|
€6,309,771.95
|
|
2010
|
98
|
€5,075,274.43
|
€2,309,060.71
|
|
2011
|
118
|
€6,415,699.86
|
€2,063,324.11
|
|
2012 to date
|
35
|
€2,225,574.31
|
€805,867.40
|
