Mr. Tom Heffernan:

The model that is in place for Irish Water is the model that is in place for commercial State bodies, and the pay and allowances in a commercial State body are the responsibility of the board. As the managing director has described, the attitude of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is that as far as bonuses are concerned the Minister has written to line Ministers asking individual Ministers to bring to the attention of the various agencies the need to have regard to pay policy. The Minister, in approving the remuneration of the managing director, did not include provision for a bonus arrangement for the managing director.