Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010	2010, No. 24
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009	2009, No. 5
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009	2009, No. 41
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010	2010, No. 38
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011	2011, No. 39
Organisation of Working Time Act 1997	1997, No. 20
Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012	2012, No. 37
Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004	2004, No. 7

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Number 18 of 2013

FINANCIAL EMERGENCY MEASURES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ACT 2013

AN ACT, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, TO PROVIDE FOR—

(A) THE REDUCTION OF THE REMUNERATION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC SERVANTS (INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS, THE JUDICIARY AND CERTAIN OFFICE HOLDERS);

(B) THE REDUCTION OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PAYMENT OF PENSION OR OTHER BENEFITS (OTHER THAN LUMP SUMS) PAYABLE TO OR IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN PERSONS WHO ARE OR WERE IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE (INCLUDING MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS, FORMER MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY AND FORMER HOLDERS OF CERTAIN OFFICES) UNDER AN OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEME OR PENSION ARRANGEMENT (BY WHATEVER NAME CALLED); AND

(C) THE ALTERATION OF THE OPERATION OF SCALES OF PAY FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS (INCLUDING THE SUSPENSION OF THE AWARDING, FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD, OF INCREMENTS UNDER THOSE SCALES),

AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.

[5th June, 2013]

WHEREAS budgetary and fiscal measures have been taken by the State since 2009 to address a serious disturbance in the economy and a decline in the economic circumstances of the State that have occurred;

AND WHEREAS it is necessary for the State to achieve further significant savings in its expenditure, both directly and indirectly, on remuneration and in its expenditure on public service pensions as a contribution to the reduction of the shortfall between revenue and expenditure that is needed to put debt on a downward path;

AND WHEREAS the State is availing itself of a financial assistance programme established by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund with funding provided by the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, the bilateral lenders (the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Denmark) and the International Monetary Fund and it is necessary to adopt a range of measures to meet commitments included in that programme to address the economic crisis in the State;

AND WHEREAS it is necessary for the State to take measures as part of remedial action to maintain the State’s path toward correcting the excessive deficit by 2015 in line with the recommendation to that effect of the Council of the European Union (Council Recommendation with a view to bringing to an end the situation of an excessive deficit in Ireland of 7 December 2010);

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

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