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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Government considers it important to award additional remuneration to the chairperson.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: We could safely go down to Paddy Power and bet that the Minister would award additional remuneration to the chairperson.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Why does the Minister of State want such flexibility? Does he believe the members of the agency will not be remunerated properly?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Paragraph 4 of Schedule A also deals with the remuneration of appointed members and members of the agency. Will members of the agency be governed by the Government's pay caps?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: How many more minutes do we have?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In page 11, to delete line 33 and substitute the following:"State;(n) the social economy; (o) environmental economics.".Molaim an leasú seo. Baineann an leasú seo le ballraíocht an choiste. Tá liosta fada, ó (a) síos go (m), maidir leis na taithí difriúla ba chóir a bheith ag duine agus iad á mholadh ag an Aire le...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Have we a quorum?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I was delayed by 5 minutes. Have we skipped my amendments?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 1: In page 10, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:“(2) Every direction made under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the direction is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the direction is laid before it, the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is off to a bad start regarding this amendment. This relates to the Minister of whatever Department giving a direction to what hopefully will be a very valuable fund set up for the interest of the State that those directions should be transparent, published and subject to the oversight that would be required under orders. The legislation does not limit the type of directions...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: What does the Minister fear in terms of transparency and including in legislation that the directions he issues to this fund be published?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Of course there is, and the Minister is very skilled in trying to avoid questions and get around angles. The amendment is clear, and I said it could be subject to being amended further, which would mean that anything that happened within the previous 21 days would not annul or invalidate any action taken. The Minister spoke about parliamentary questions, freedom of information,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I will help inform the Minister. The last time his Government awarded an additional €17,000 to a super junior Minister was through a statutory instrument, and that was raised on the floor of the Dáil and in committees by me. There are parliamentarians who pay close attention to what Government does behind closed doors. That is the reason directions given to this agency in this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a national register of the beneficial owners of companies, trusts and foundations here, that will require the names, dates of birth, nationality or jurisdiction of incorporation, contact details, number of shares, categories of shares including the nature of the associated voting rights and proportion of shareholding or control, if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will progress a register of the beneficial owners of companies, trusts and foundations here, that will require the names, dates of birth, nationality or jurisdiction of incorporation, contact details, number of shares, categories of shares including the nature of the associated voting rights and proportion of shareholding or control before the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the capital gains tax payable here by Wilbur Ross following his selling of shares at Bank of Ireland. [27981/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the price at which an estate (details supplied) in County Tipperary in which the National Asset Management Agency has an interest was sold. [28127/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the way complaints about the sales process by unsuccessful bidders on properties in which the National Asset Management Agency have an interest are dealt with and the independent scrutiny of such complaints exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28128/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Properties (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has considered any plans to review the operation of the mint in Sandyford. [28482/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Administration (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of SOLAS in ensuring that employers who take on apprentices under the supervision of SOLAS are compliant with employment law in respect of the rights and entitlements of the apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27866/14]