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9.The Department of Finance and Personnel co-ordinated central consultation on the Act between representatives from the Northern Ireland departments with responsibilities for the main public service pension schemes and a collective trades union grouping led by the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions which represented each of the public service employments within the Act’s remit.
10.The Department of Finance and Personnel consulted publicly from 21 January 2013 to 15 April 2013 on the policy carried in the Act(2).
‘Consultation on proposals to Reform Public Service Pensions from April 2015’ is published on the Department of Finance and Personnel website at: www.dfpni.gov.uk/civilservicepensions-ni/policy_consultation_document. The Department of Finance and Personnel published an official response to the consultation on 21 May 2013 www.dfpni.gov.uk/civilservicepensions-ni/index/latest-news/public_service_pensions_bill.htmBack [1]