Vol. 505 No. 3
126 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for Finance if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 20 April 1999 regarding retirement terms furnished to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary, he will review his reply in view of the information that the grade of estates officer was abolished at the time the person retired and is thereby entitled to be linked to the grade of executive officer for all pension increase purposes. [13455/99]
As I indicated in my reply of 20 April 1999, it was intended that the grade of estates officer would be abolished at the time of the officer's retirement and that they would be linked to the executive officer grade for pension increase purposes. In the event, the grade of estates officer has not been abolished and it will continue in existence until the difficulties vis-à-vis the serving officers in the grade in the Department of Agriculture and Food are resolved. The question of which salary scale retired officers in the estates officer grade will be linked to for pension increase purposes will be determined in the course of resolving the position in relation to serving staff.
