Some payments reached €175,000 per teacher.
The total value of pension payments paid to primary and secondary teachers, and their spouses and children, last year was €964 million.
Some 28 teachers got retirement lump sums of over €150,000 euro last year.
According to freedom of information figures, 670 teachers received at least €100,000.
A total of 1,276 primary and secondary teachers received retirement lump sums last year.
The total value of them was nearly €121 million in 2021.
There was two secondary school teachers who received over €175,000.
The biggest amount paid to a primary school teacher was over €160,000.

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