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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Mr. Ashmore mentioned that there was an examination of the environmental aspect as regards the NTMA's approach. Obviously, that is a good thing. Will he explain how the environmental aspect - when the bombing of an entire area obviously has huge environmental implications - is assessed at the point when Israeli bonds were being invested in? How does its environmental assessment work? War...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: How does the environmental aspect come into it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: So it would be more if there was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, but that is separate. The environmental assessment, so to speak, does not relate to the environmental impact of where the money is going. It is simply on how the return would be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: My view is that we need to do awful lot of work as regards the legislative mandate. Did Mr. Ashmore outline what the exact figures are for those six securities? I do not have the exact figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I just wanted to get that right. On the fraud that occurred, the witnesses can tell me which questions they can answer and which they cannot. We want to be kept in check here. Previously, I worked in different banks, in collateral management and in confirmation settlements in derivative trades. There was checking and double-checking, and I was a low-level employee. We were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It was signed off in Mr. O'Connor's name, so I do not know if people would.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Will there be a look-back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Mr. O'Connor mentioned it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: My time is up but I am conscious Mr. O'Connor wanted to say a few things at the beginning of the meeting. I think it was in regard to an Teachta Timmins's questions. Would Mr. O'Connor like to add anything else before we wrap up the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. O'Connor. Go raibh míle maith agaibh as teacht chur an coiste agus as labhairt sinn inniú. That concludes the joint committee's business today. We will next meet, in private session, at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 23 July. Go raibh maith agaibh.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is deeply concerning for most people that this is where it is. When does the Minister expect to have an outcome? Has he been able to identity exactly how this occurred? I do not mean any one person should be blamed for something like this but there must have been some system failures as well. Has the Minister got to the bottom of that? Does he expect that to come out of the report?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his scoping exercise for the overpayment of civil servants and Ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39499/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: My question relates to the scoping exercise the Minister and his Department are undertaking on the overpayment of pensions to civil servants and Ministers. What is the status of that, what has been identified to date and what can he tell us about it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: People are quite worried about this. We are seeing reports that one civil servant was apparently overpaid by €280,000. The 19 former and existing senior civil servants received overpayments worth €1.4 million. I hope measures are being put in place to make sure this does not happen again. The fact that it happened in the first place is shocking. When I raised it with the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: When we are talking about investment within Uisce Éireann and we know investment is desperately needed in terms of delivery of housing and so on across the State, we also need to look at the investment we are making in water infrastructure on the offshore islands. On Inis Oirr, for example, there are night-time restrictions every summer. We need to have a plan and we need to invest in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Apologies. I did not realise.