{"id":239218,"date":"2026-01-18T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239218\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:04:11","slug":"charlie-mcconalogue-confirms-agreement-of-payment-plan-over-pension-entitlements-error-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239218\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie McConalogue confirms agreement of payment plan over pension entitlements error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal Minister of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/search?q=Charlie+McConalogue&amp;idcanale=6&amp;idcanalericerca=6&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Charlie McConalogue<\/a> has confirmed that he was one of the serving and former ministers who were overpaid due to errors in pension deductions.<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed that the Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport has a payment plan agreed following the error which was due to miscalculations made on pension entitlements by the National Shared Services Office (NSSO).<\/p>\n<p>Last June, it emerged that more than 34 serving ministers had received overpayments as a result of miscalculations made on their pension entitlements and that\u00a0 32 of those owed money to the State. The sums involved ranged from hundreds of euro to more than \u20ac30,000. Two ministers had been underpaid and were owed money.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Mr McConalogue confirmed \u201cthat he has a payment plan agreed with the NSSO to clear the amount owed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The issue arose as a result of a voluntary reduction in salary that had applied to his salary of 10% of his Dail and ministerial salary for each year of the previous government, the spokesman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NSSO has subsequently indicated that they made a mistake and that the pension levy should have been paid on the part of the salary that was donated and Minister McConalogue subsequently received a bill for a pension levy to be paid on the money he had donated,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/local-news\/1990609\/national-broadband-plan-connection-now-available-on-tory-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">National Broadband Plan connection now available on Tory Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm on behalf of the Minister that he has a payment plan agreed with the NSSO to clear this amount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Donegal Sinn F\u00e9in TD Pearse Doherty had called on\u00a0ministers involved to clarify their position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen serving government ministers &#8211; some earning over \u20ac200,000 &#8211; have still not repaid money they were never entitled to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven months have passed and not a single red cent has been returned by those ministers. The failure to return the money only came to light when I questioned Minister Jack Chambers at the Finance Committee this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only have these ministers paid nothing back, so far none of them have even put their hands up to admit they are one of the 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal Minister of State Charlie McConalogue has confirmed that he was one of the serving and former ministers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,139815,139816,87175,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-239218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-charlie-mcconalogue","10":"tag-dail-eireann","11":"tag-donegal","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}