I propose to take Questions Nos. 454 and 459 together.
The number of personnel who retired in each year since 2009, to date, with entitlement to gratuity immediately on retirement, as well as the total gratuity payments made to retiring personnel in each of these years, are shown in tabular form below:
Table 1 — retired members of the Permanent Defence Force (PDF).
Table 2 — retired civil servants from the Department of Defence.
Table 3 — retired civilian employees employed with the PDF.
The annual cost of retirement gratuities shown includes payments in relation to some personnel who retired towards year-end and to whom payment was actually made at the start of the following year. The data does not include lump sums paid in respect of severance and redundancy-type payments (specifically for those in Tables 2 and 3) or for deaths in service generally.
Table 1
Permanent Defence Force
|
Year
|
Cost of Retirement Gratuities €m
|
Numbers of retired personnel paid immediate pension and/or gratuity (see note)
|
2009
|
23.831
|
443
|
2010
|
21.574
|
448
|
2011
|
25.757
|
525
|
2012 to date
|
29.185
|
538
|
Note: These figures include 82 military personnel (18 in 2009, 21 in 2010, 27 in 2011 and 16 in 2012) who retired with entitlement to a short-service gratuity only (i.e. with no pension). The figures also include 13 members of the Army Nursing Service (4 in 2009, 3 in 2010, 2 in 2011 and 4 in 2012) who retired with entitlement to pension only (i.e. with no gratuity).
Table 2
Civil Servants employed with the Department of Defence
|
Year
|
Cost of retirement gratuities €m
|
Numbers who retired with immediate benefits (pension and gratuity)
|
2009
|
1.132
|
26
|
2010
|
0.588
|
11
|
2011
|
0.437
|
10
|
2012 to date
|
0.648
|
7
|
Table 3
Civilian employees employed with the PDF
|
Year
|
Cost of retirement gratuities €m
|
Numbers who retired with immediate benefits (pensions and gratuity)
|
2009
|
1.539
|
41
|
2010
|
1.345
|
33
|
2011
|
2.406
|
57
|
2012 to date
|
1.349
|
31
|