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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: I know I discussed the NTMA building with Mr. O'Kelly - is it a year since he was here? Time goes very quickly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: I am still waiting for my invite although I know the NTMA is not in the building yet. Mr. O'Kelly mentioned ethical investments. I see whiskey on the list and Deputy Catherine Murphy referred to Mercosur and the effects that deal might have. Who determines what is ethical in terms of NTMA investment? We have had a lot of conversation here about minimum unit pricing of alcohol and all of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: In terms of the booze element and our issues as a country with alcohol, which is a psychoactive substance, is it ethical for the NTMA to be investing in a product like that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: That direction has to come from on high.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Has the NTMA investigated any investments in the global movement that is cannabis production? Is that on the radar as something that is a good return?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: I will not make as much out of the building as I did last year. The new rate was €49 per square foot, was it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: The NTMA would have had to do up the original building, is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Mr. O'Kelly mentioned the turnover with reference to the price of doing up the building. Is it the L'Oreal approach of "We're worth it"? What difference does the amount the NTMA turns over make to the cost per square foot of its office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Cabling seems to be an issue everywhere. We had it going around the children's hospital five times.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: How long is the lease on that building?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Regarding the voluntary redundancy scheme that was set up in 2018, each contract at the NTMA is individual to the person, so why would it need a voluntary redundancy scheme? Let us say I was employed there and my contract said I would do X, Y and Z. If I was no longer fulfilling those criteria, surely the NTMA could get rid of me. Why would it need to pay me off? Some 33 people were made...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Jeepers, that is very lucrative. A third gone, a third at reduced cost and a third-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: That individual contract did not really hold any water.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: What about their pension rights? Would getting this voluntary redundancy affect an individual's pension rights going forward?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is the pension similar to the public sector pension in respect of being aligned with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is a fairly lucrative scheme, like a Civil Service pension.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Under each individual contract, were people's pensions negotiated?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is the IMF €45 billion included in the €200 billion? Is that on top of it? The cheap money.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: The one the Chair was asking about, at the bottom.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019) Kate O'Connell: Bearing in mind the mass actions, particularly regarding thalidomide, Pandemrix and the vaccine that came out, who is responsible for the learnings from such historic events? I was trying to look up these events but I could not. The thalidomide issue arose around 1958. I had not time to look it up. The HPRA is now the body that authorises medicines in this country. When did it start?...