Results 501-520 of 580 for pension speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will enforce sections 6 and 7 of the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1963 by rescinding special severance gratuity payments and added years awarded to existing senior civil servants such as Secretaries General and county managers on their retirement. [28653/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the finding in the Trident report commissioned by the teacher unions on the proposed changes to public service pensions which show that several categories of teachers will pay more into the scheme than they will receive. [28741/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the administrative costs of the proposed single pension scheme for all public servants have been costed by him; and the savings if any that will be realised. [28743/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 27 September 2011, the saving if all existing public service pension payments were capped at €35,000 applying the comparable trend as applied to his calculation for capping all existing civil service pensions payments at €35,930. [28811/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the State if all existing and future public and civil service pension payments were capped at €35,000 per year. [28812/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings to be State if career averaging were applied to all existing civil and public service pensions. [28813/11]

Public Service Appointments (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: So he was an ex officio member of the body who made the contractual arrangement which the Minister could not challenge even with the pensions legislation.

Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., that members would pay more to the scheme in contributions than they would receive from its benefits. In fact, the report goes on to say that teachers would be better off to opt out of the pension scheme. The Minister said he has spoken with the teachers' unions. Has he identified for them the flaw in the Trident report and, if so, what was their response? So far as I know the...

Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The teachers and everyone else know full well that the pension levy is a tax and is not a contribution to pension.

Pension Provisions (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: If Trident is wrong on that basis and if, as the Minister has said, the pension levy is not set in stone can I assume the Minister gave the teachers unions some reassurance or a timeframe as to when the pension levy might end?

Public Service Contracts (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...supplied) to the Department of the Taoiseach as agreed by the Top Level Appointments Committee, in advance or upon their retirement as allowed for in sections 6 and 7 of the Superannuation and Pension Act 1963. [28652/11]

Public Service Contracts (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...on this matter, he constantly invokes the Top Level Appointments Committee, TLAC. What the Minister studiously ignores is his powers under legislation, specifically, the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1963, section 7 of which-----

Public Service Contracts (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...he made no effort t rescind that payment to Mr. McCarthy. Section 6 of the same legislation, which I am sure the Minister has before him, refers to additional years. Mr. McCarthy received his full pension at the age of 57 years and there was no actuarial reduction despite his not reaching the standard pension entitlement age.

Public Service Contracts (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...also soon to end. Can we expect more of the same from the Minister, hiding behind TLAC, the top level appointments committee, while not exercising the legislative function as set out in existing pensions legislation?

Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...by special advisers in previous Administrations. I do not have a hang-up about special advisers, but there is a real problem with those salary levels. We have had the universal social charge, pension levies and welfare cutbacks, all of which had to be implemented because things are tough and we are all in it together, yet when it comes to this coterie of people, the rule book is thrown...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 83: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of revenue that could be raised in a 12 month period by applying a 0% rate of tax on the first €75,000 lump sum pension payment paid out to public and civil servants in his Department on retirement; then applying the lower rate of tax on the next €125,000 of the same payment; and applying the higher rate of tax on the remainder. [27068/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 85: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of revenue that could have been raised between June 2010 and June 2011 if a 0% rate of tax on the first €75,000 lump sum pension payment on retirement of all public and civil servants in his Department during the same period; applying the lower rate of tax on the next €125,000 of the same payment; and applying the higher rate of tax on the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 84: To ask the Taoiseach the number of retired public and civil servants from his Department who are currently in receipt of an annual pension of up to and including €30,000 per year; up to and including €50,000 per year; up to and including €70,000 per year; up to and including €90,000 per year; up to and including €100,000 per year; up to and including €120,000 per...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of revenue that could be raised in a 12 month period by applying a 0% rate of tax on the first €75,000 lump sum pension payment paid out to public and civil servants in his Department on retirement; then applying the lower rate of tax on the next €125,000 of the same payment; and applying the higher rate of...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of retired public and civil servants from his Department that are currently in receipt of an annual pension of up to and including €30,000 per year; up to and including €50,000 per year; up to and including €70,000 per year; up to and including €90,000 per year; up to and including €100,000 per...