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Mon 04 Apr 2010Commissioner to forgo pension
European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has asked for her Dáil and ministerial pensions be “gifted to the State” for the duration of her service as a commissioner.
A statement released on behalf of the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan tonight said Ms Geoghegan-Quinn had contacted the Minister to ask that “the necessary arrangements be put in place to allow her to gift to the State her current ministerial and Oireachtas pension”.
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