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APPENDIX 7.COMPASSIONATE GRATUITIES GRANTED TO RETIRED CIVIL SERVANTSCléireach, An Coiste Um Chuntais Phoiblí. At the proceedings of the Committee on 5 February in connection with the Appropriation Account of the Vote for Superannuation and Retired Allowances, I undertook to supply information in regard to the terms under which compassionate gratuities are paid to unestablished officers. Compassionate gratuities may be granted under the Superannuation Acts to unestablished officers whose employment ceases owing to age, ill health or redundancy and who have completed at least seven years’ wholetime service. Provided that the service has been in every respect satisfactory, gratuities are calculated at the rate of one week’s pay for each completed year of service up to 15, and two weeks’ pay for each subsequent completed year of service, subject to a maximum of 78 weeks’ pay. To be eligible to receive a gratuity an officer retiring on age grounds must be at least 60 years of age, or where he is retiring on ill health grounds before reaching 60 must be medically certified to be permanently incapable, owing to infirmity of mind or body, of performing his duties. In the case of officers who are entitled to a lump sum payment under the Redundancy Payments Act and who were in State employment on 1 January, 1968, the amount of the compassionate gratuity is restricted to the difference between the appropriate full compassionate gratuity and the lump sum payable under the Redundancy Payments Act. Compassionate gratuities are not paid in cases of redundancy affecting officers who came into State employment after 1 January, 1968. Dependents of an unestablished officer who dies while employed may be granted such compassionate gratuity (if any) as could have been granted to him had he retired owing to ill health at the time of his death. (Signed) C. H. MURRAY, Accounting Officer, Department of Finance. 3 Márta, 1970. |
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