Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 July 2014
154. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer, following implementation of the Haddington Road agreement, if he imposed the following public sector pension bands (details supplied) to all public sector pensions; and if the amount saved includes non-commercial State sponsored bodies, local authorities and hospital consultants. [30147/14]
View answerGiven the data currently available to it, my Department is not in a position to produce a sufficiently detailed and reliable estimate of the Deputy's proposals for multiple adjustments to the Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) which applies to public service occupational pensions in payment under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 to 13, especially as it would entail the imposition of multiple and substantial changes to the existing band-specific rates of PSPR. It is to be noted that the recent Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 underpinned a further progressive increase to the rates of PSPR applicable to pensions currently in payment.
