Vol. 507 No. 2
113 Ms Clune asked the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be provided with a record of her employment in the Civil Service and details of her entitlements following this employment. [16637/99]
I understand that the person in question was employed as a clerical officer in the Stationery Office from approximately January 1953 until 1958. It is understood that she worked in air traffic control, Shannon Airport, Co. Clare from 1958 until approximately October 1961.
The functions of the Government supplies agency, formerly known as the Stationery Office, were transferred to the Office of Public Works on 1 January 1988. My office has made a thorough search of all the personal files held in respect of former employees of the Stationery Office but regretfully there is no trace of a file for the person concerned.
The Department of Public Enterprise has responsibility for the air traffic control service. That Department has advised, also, that it is unable to trace any records for the person concerned with regard to the period the person concerned worked in air traffic control, Shannon Airport.
I am advised that the Department of Finance wrote to the person concerned on 21 April 1999 stating that she had no pension entitlement as she had resigned from the Civil Service prior to 1 June 1973, the date from which preservation of service was introduced, and that no retrospective provision applied. It also advised that in relation to the payment of a marriage gratuity that at the time, to qualify for such a gratuity an officer resigning before marriage had to indicate her intention of marrying and, in the normal course, must marry within two months of the date of her resignation.
