PQ 611
611. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to set out, in respect of pension increases under the Eircom Superannuation Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, the legal and scheme basis upon which members who retired before January 1984 receive different pension increase outcomes from those who retired after that date; to identify the specific Rule, statutory instrument, or legislative provision under which this distinction operates; to state whether his Department has undertaken any equality, pensions law, or constitutional assessment of this differential treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14712/26]
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611. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to set out, in respect of pension increases under the Eircom Superannuation Defined Benefit Pension Scheme, the legal and scheme basis upon which members who retired before January 1984 receive different pension increase outcomes from those who retired after that date; to identify the specific Rule, statutory instrument, or legislative provision under which this distinction operates; to state whether his Department has undertaken any equality, pensions law, or constitutional assessment of this differential treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14712/26]
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2026-02-24/611/
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