Appendix 1.1 - Membership of Commission on Public Service Pensions

Professor Dermot McAleese (Chairperson), Whately Professor of Political Economy, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Brian Aylward, Personnel Director of Irish Cement Ltd., and former Chairman of the Irish Association of Pension Funds

Mr John Cullen, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Environment

Mr Brian Geoghegan, Director of Economic Affairs, Research and Information, IBEC

Mr Brendan Hayes, Regional Secretary, SIPTU

Mr Eamonn Heffernan, Director, Mercer Ltd., Chairperson, The Pensions Board

Ms Anne Maher, Chief Executive, The Pensions Board

Mr Joe McGovern, Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance

Mr Dan Murphy, General Secretary, Public Service Executive Union

Senator Joe O'Toole, General Secretary, Irish National Teachers Organisation

Ms Anne Vaughan, Principal Officer, Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs

Appendix 1.2 Ongoing industrial relations issues in certain areas of the public service in relation to pension matters

The following is the list of areas brought to the attention of the Commission by the Department of Finance in a briefing note dated 7 November 1996.

Education Sector

1. Teachers Early Retirement

2. Trinity College Pensions for part-time staff; integration with State Social Insurance Pension

Health Service

3. Nurses Early Retirement

4. Non-Nursing Staff Pensions for part-time staff, improved death in service in Eastern Health benefits, integration with State Social Insurance Pension, Board and Dublin early retirement, guaranteed minimum pension, Voluntary Hospitals reckoning of overtime for pension purposes

General

5. Pension increases in the context of public service restructuring agreements