Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 June 2018
274. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who have retired in each year since 2007; the professional occupation of each at the time of retirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24632/18]
View answerThe authorities responsible for the administration 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 the number of retirees in each year 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.
There have been 14,489 retirements from the civil service since 2007. The retirements are broken out by year in the following table.
|
Year |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
TOTAL |
|
No. of retirees |
830 |
840 |
2,191 |
1,260 |
1,070 |
1,846 |
852 |
1,301 |
1,363 |
1,457 |
1,479 |
14,489 |
Issues with the recording of historical data means that the professional occupation of each retiree is not readily available.
