Haughey pockets €132,000 pension

FORMER Taoiseach Charles Haughey received pension payments of over €132,000 in 2004 as part of a €12 million pension bill for former Oireachtas members.

Mr Haughey was one of 10 former Government ministers who received over €100,000 in pensions that year. He received €132,233 comprising a TD’s pension of €46,498 and a ministerial pension of €85,735.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds’s annual pension almost matched that of Mr Haughey. His overall pension of €131,000 comprised a ministerial pension of €84,578 and a TD’s pension of €46,498.