Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2012

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The proposal would cut pay for senior public office-holders and public servants, including judges, ministers, TDs, senators and the President. It would cap most listed salaries at €100,000, set lower limits for TDs and senators, remove various Oireachtas allowances, and apply steep reductions to higher public-service pensions, including full reductions above €100,000 (page 5). It would also end special pension arrangements for current and future Secretaries General and repeal a 2012 order on certain ministers’ allowances.

Formal long title

in the public interest, to provide for the amendments to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011 in order to provide for the reduction of the remuneration of judges, military judges, certain other office holders, Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, public servants; amendments to the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1963 in order to provide for the withdrawal of special pension provisions for all current and future Secretaries General

Last updated 17 April 2018