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Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan: His signature and that of Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe are required to sign off on the An Post pension increases before they can be implemented. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

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More than 7,000 retired An Post employees have been left waiting on fully funded cost-of-living increases to their pensions for eight months due to an “excessively cumbersome and lengthy” Government approval process, according to one of the unions in the sector.

The total increases, awarded in three phases – all overdue now – are worth just over 8 per cent. With average pensions at An Post for those with 40 years’ service put at €320, this would amount to increases of more than €25 per week.

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Those affected will be due modest lump sums when the payments are approved largely based on 5 per cent of the increase being backdated to January 1st, 2022.

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Seán McDonagh, general secretary of the Communications Workers Union (CWU), has written to both the Taoiseach and Tánaiste seeking their intervention with Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan and Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe, both of whom are required to sign off on the increases before they can be implemented.