Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 5 October 2016
165. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons outside the payroll shared service centre, in increments of €5,000, in receipt of lump sums on retirement from the public service; and the corresponding amount of the lump sum in each of the years 2013 to 2015 granted by his Department. [28772/16]
Amharc ar fhreagraIn my response to question 27235/16 answered on 27 September, 2016, I provided the Deputy with the number of lump sums paid centrally to civil servants on retirement in 2013, 2014 and 2015, broken down by the bands requested by the Deputy, and the corresponding total value of lump sums paid centrally in each of those years. The details of lump sums which were not paid centrally are held in a range of databases by a number of Government Departments and I consider that initiating a trawl of this data would not add to the sum of knowledge imparted by my previous answer and would give rise to considerable administrative cost.
