The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was established on 9 March 2011. The information requested by the Deputy on the cost of lump sums, pensions and severance payments for the years between 2008 and the end of February 2012 is set out in Table 1, which follows this reply. The information provided is available with respect to the former Department of Transport only prior to March 2011. As the Department does not know at present how many staff will retire from 1 March 2012 to the end of 2015, it is not possible to provide information in respect of this period. With regard to the loss of the pension levy and superannuation payments, the collation of this information would involve considerable expenditure of time as it would have to be compiled manually for each individual concerned. The severance payments were as a result of cessation of employment contracts which either reached the end of the contract terms or were as a result of a change in Government.
Table 1
|
Year
|
Department
|
Lump sum cost
|
Gross annual Pension cost
|
Cost of Severance Payment
|
|
2008
|
Transport
|
€665,275
|
€219,120
|
Nil
|
|
2009
|
Transport
|
€4,775,230
|
€1,622,743
|
€164,467
|
|
2010
|
Transport
|
€2,050,145
|
€784,128
|
Nil
|
|
2011
|
Transport, Tourism and Sport
|
€1,550,960
|
€494,500
|
€33,543
|
|
1/1/12-29/2/12 (anticipated)
|
Transport, Tourism and Sport
|
€1,688,020
|
€530,472
|
Nil
|
