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Patsy McGlone
11th August 2010
McGlone: Top civil servants’
£75m pension pot
SDLP member of the Public Accounts
Committee Patsy McGlone MLA has discovered that top senior servants across
the 11 Stormont departments tasked with implementing the toughest public
spending cuts in a generation will share a pension pot of £75million.
The Mid Ulster MLA obtained the figures following research by the SDLP amid
concerns that those implementing the spending and staff cuts would be
topping up already generous salaries with ‘golden handshakes’.
Mr McGlone said: "I'm sure it's very reassuring for 118, already well paid
civil servants, to know they have a pension pot of £75 million. However,
it's cold comfort for the average pensioner who, in most cases after
stamping all their lives, gets a retirement pension amounting to £97.65 a
week.
“These are tough times we're in. Last night I met with a group of people in
the construction trade where many are now for the first time in their
working lives out of work. The priority in any society should be looking
after those on little or no income, rather than providing very comfortable
post-retirement lifestyles for senior civil servants."
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