Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

5:45 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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I thank the Minister of State for his reply, but the question was not on bonuses. With respect, I already knew everything he told me, as I submitted many of those parliamentary questions on the NTMA recommencing bonus payments in the past year after a few years of not making them. Since we are debating the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill, we are not dealing with what is happening currently. Rather, we are creating a number of new structures and giving them substantial powers, for example, the ability to sell off or consider privatising some State resources.