Retirement lump sums of over €300,000 paid to five former civil servants in a three-year period – TheStory.ie

Retirement lump sums of over €300,000 paid to five former civil servants in a three-year period – TheStory.ie

Five civil servants have retired with lump sum payments worth over €300,000 over the past three years. The payments were made to officials with long service in the public sector to go along with an entitlement to a six-figure annual pension. Details from the Department of the Public Expenditure show how one person last year received a lump sum of €358,490. Their annual pension was calculated at €120,692, according to data released under Freedom …