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APPENDIX XIII.

(a) RE-EMPLOYMENT OF CIVIL SERVANTS, RETIRED UNDER ARTICLE 10 OF THE TREATY.

(b) LIMITATION OF EXTRA REMUNERATION OF PENSIONER

In the course of my examination before the Committee of Public Accounts on the 12th June, 1947, I undertook to indicate to the Committee the number of ex-Civil Servants in receipt of Article 10 compensation allowances who were re-employed subsequent to the 26th June, 1940, in situations in public departments and whose allowances were not abated under Section 16 of the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929, by reason of the operation of the Emergency Powers (No. 30) Order, 1940 (S.R. & O., No. 176 of 1940).

Seven persons with Article 10 compensation entered into employment within the meaning of Section 16 of the 1929 Act after the 26th June, 1940. From the particulars furnished by the persons themselves it appears that abatement would have taken place in 3 cases but for the operation of the Emergency Powers Order. In the absence of power to suspend or abate compensation it was not considered desirable to pursue enquiries as to the amount of remuneration on re-employment, and it cannot therefore be stated definitely that abatement of compensation might not have taken place in any of the remaining 4 cases if the power of suspension or abatement had been in operation.

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I also undertook to explain the reference on page 61 (Superannuation and Retired Allowances) of the Appropriation Accounts, 1945-46, under the heading “Extra Remuneration” to the sum of £795 paid during the year of account to a pensioner. This relates to a person who was appointed a Senior Professor in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at a salary of £1,200 a year. In accordance with the conditions of his appointment his salary as Senior Professor was reduced by an amount equal to the amount of his pension from State funds. The sum of £795 paid to the pensioner represents the difference between the normal salary of the post and the amount of his pension.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary, Department of Finance.

5 Iúl, 1947.