Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

In the spirit of being helpful to the Minister, what needs to step up is the performance of the Minister for housing and indeed the collective performance of Government. All of that is just verbiage that the Minister has offered up on that unit. The Minister for housing drives housing delivery. That is their job description, that is why they are on a big salary. The legislation is very clear that all NAMA employees and executives transferring back to the NTMA will work in the resolution unit. Therefore, all of them will hold their terms and conditions. That is what it states. Either the Government is going to remove that provision from the legislation, and please tell me if that is the case, or we can only presume that Mr. McDonagh will return to the NTMA and hold his salary of €430,000. The Minister has been caught out here and he is continuing to duck and dive today. I want clarity from him. He will return to the NTMA. What salary will he be on? Will it, in fact, remain at €430,000? It is an obscene salary in anybody's mind.

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