Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

I asked the Minister to state his position as to whether he believed the public interest directors in AIB were fit for their position, because under their watch they signed off on a severance package that allowed the taxpayers to pay Colm Doherty €3 million. As the public interest directors have a different role from that of the other directors of the bank, does the Minister for Finance, as the person who will appoint public interest directors in the future, have the power to call in these public interest directors to ask them what is happening with severance packages in the bank?

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