Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is custom and practice when representatives of the NTMA are before the Oireachtas that the chairman of the National Pensions Reserve Fund accompany the chairman. Let me give as another example the CIE group of companies. The chairman of CIE will attend with his or her staff and the same applies to Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus and Irish Rail. I expect - there is no reason not to anticipate this will happen - that whomever the relevant committee wants to speak to will accompany the chief executive. If they were not present, the represetatives present would not be able to account fully to the Oireachtas. It is the custom and practice for them to attend.