Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

I am sure the Minister will concede that TLAC cannot overrule the law of the land. I again put it to the Minister that he had the levers and discretion to stop the special severance payment, to put a halt to the award of additional years and to end the disgrace of this outrageous payment to this top civil servant but despite all of his rhetoric around change and transparency he failed to do that.

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