Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

I refer to the Department of Finance Circular 35/2007 (E157/19/2000), dated 02/11/2007 and to Section 5. (Superannuation), which sets out the arrangements for the payment of a lump sum to “an officer who retires between 14 September 2007 and the date on which the full rate recommended in Review Body Report No. 42 becomes payable”. The circular also stated “The death gratuity of an officer who dies in service between 14 September 2007 and the date on which the full recommended rate becomes payable should be calculated on the same basis.” The Appendix to the circular set out the “Revised non-PPC rates of salary” for the posts of Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General with effect from 14 September 2007. The subject matter of this FOI Request is the decision contained in Section 5. to apply the full rates of Report No. 42 awards to the lump sums of officers who retired between 14 September 2007 and the date on which the full rate recommended in Review Body Report No. 42 became payable (01/03/2009). I request the following: (1) All records concerning the “decision” above, as contained in the