Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 May 2017
378. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount contributed by or deducted from all public sector workers toward their pensions including amounts from the pension levy, in each of the years 2010 to 2016. [24048/17]
View answerThe authorities responsible for the administration and oversight of the large number of pension schemes operating in the various sectors of the Irish public service are, in general, the relevant employers and Ministers in those sectors.
It would be a matter for those sectorial authorities, including relevant Ministers, to supply such information as may be available in respect of employee contributions to those individual pension schemes.
I and my Department are responsible for the civil service pension schemes, which cover personnel in established and unestablished civil service and State Industrial posts who are not members of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme.
Total contributions by members of these civil service pension schemes for each of the years 2010 to 2016 are set out as follows.
|
Year |
Civil Service Pension Schemes: Employee Contributions (excludes Single Public Service Pension Scheme) |
|
2010 |
€44,170,000 |
|
2011 |
€47,338,000 |
|
2012 |
€50,599,000 |
|
2013 |
€49,633,000 |
|
2014 |
€48,476,000 |
|
2015 |
€49,611,000 |
|
2016 |
€47,094,000 |
The Single Public Service Pension Scheme was introduced on 1 January 2013 under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. Broadly speaking, membership of the Single Scheme comprises all first-time new entrants to the public service since 1 January 2013, along with former pensionable public servants who, on or after that date, return to public service employment after a break of more than 26 weeks. The pension contributions of public servants who are members of the Single Scheme in each year from its introduction in 2013 up to 2016, are set out in the following table.
|
Year |
Single Public Service Pension Scheme: Employee Contributions |
|
2013 |
€2,216,000 |
|
2014 |
€17,958,000 |
|
2015 |
€50,874,000 |
|
2016 |
€75,933,000 |
The public service Pension-Related Deduction (PRD), which is not a pension contribution, is applied to the pay of pensionable public servants, under terms set out in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009, as amended. It is sometimes referred to as the "pension levy". The Exchequer yield from PRD in each of the years 2010 to 2016 is set out in the following table.
|
Year |
PRD Yield |
|
2010 |
€948,605,000 |
|
2011 |
€960,224,000 |
|
2012 |
€934,739,000 |
|
2013 |
€925,986,000 |
|
2014 |
€877,800,000 |
|
2015 |
€875,985,000 |
|
2016 |
€705,998,000 |
These PRD amounts do not include the non-Exchequer PRD yield, as arising, for example, in the local government sector.
