Y€S Ministers Thirty-two current ministers or junior ministers owe repayments to the State of up to €30,000 as a result of errors in their pension deductions. A further three are owed money. -Mary Reagan This related to Chargeable Excess Tax – which only applies to pension pots worth more than €2m. Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty said this was a “whopper of a pension” and asked: “Of these individuals who were so overpaid – these individuals would be accounting officers for their departments – did any of them notify the department that they got this bonanza or did all of them stay schtum?” 7-year gap between the issue first coming to the attention of the NSSO and someone deciding this was a bigger issue needing further investigation #Dáil#Pensions#Ministers#HowIrelandWorks#NSSO#Revenuehttps://independent.ie/irish-news/politics/number-of-ministers-who-owe-state-thousands-of-euro-due-to-errors-in-pension-deductions-is-revealed/a1047041584.html

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