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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26589/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information (22 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if at any stage since taking up a position as Minister he has deleted any SMS or messages on other messaging apps that would fall under freedom of information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Freedom of Information (22 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 404. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if at any stage since taking up a position as Minister he has deleted any SMS or messages on other messaging apps that would fall under freedom of information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26431/25]

Restricted Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to empower the Minister for Finance to make regulations imposing certain restrictive measures in respect of securities issued by or on behalf of the State of Israel; and to provide for related matters. Israel is committing genocide. A population bombed relentlessly is now on the brink of starvation. Some 14,000 babies...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. McDonagh for coming before the committee. I want to state in public session that it is unacceptable for the NTMA not to be here. They are paid and paid well and are servants of the public. The Oireachtas finance committee invited them in. They should be here to answer the questions. Mr. McDonagh is here and we appreciate that. He has outlined the work that NAMA has to do...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Was there any discussion afterwards with the Taoiseach or anyone else when Mr. McDonagh decided to pull out?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: On 16 April when Mr. McDonagh met the Minister, Deputy Browne, did they discuss retention of his salary at that stage?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: How then was Micheál Martin able to stand up in the Dáil and say - was it ever understood that Mr. McDonagh was retaining his €430,000 salary if he accepted that position?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is relevant to NAMA because he oversees NAMA. NAMA has got more than 1,000 social houses that are to be transferred over, land with capacity for 4,000 houses and tens of million of euro of assets. The head was being poached to another role. That was completely botched. I appreciate Mr. McDonagh's answer. To be clear, at the time he withdrew from this position or indicated he did not...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough if he does not want to. He might clarify something in terms of a "Yes" or a "No". NAMA is a development of homes, social homes, rental accommodation and so on and it also deals a lot with people who are complying and have to comply with planning permission. Can he confirm with regard to the NTMA code of conduct that he did not have any responsibility to declare as an...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am not asking about your personal circumstances.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The question is in relation to the ethics Acts and is in relation to the NTMA code of conduct. When you are an officer who is paid €430,000, there are requirements. There is a requirement here to furnish annual statements of one's own registerable interests. Is, in Mr. McDonagh's view, he satisfied that he has complied with that?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. I thank Mr. McDonagh. We were led to believe when we were dealing with the pre-legislative scrutiny of the legislation to wind down NAMA that everybody would go into the resolution unit. It has now emerged that is not the case. Is that a fact?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Just to be clear, and I am paraphrasing here, the heads of Bill are quite clear. They state that all employees of NAMA at the point of dissolution will transfer to the resolution unit. That is what the heads of Bill are saying.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, but that is my understanding.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is what we are trying to tease out. Mr McDonagh will transfer back to the NTMA and not the resolution unit. Is that correct?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. McDonagh for clarifying that. Can he shed any light on the remuneration that would be paid in that position? He is the head of NAMA, he has overseen a large organisation and he has been paid substantially for that. Will he provide any information to the committee on whether he will be taking a salary reduction when he transfers back into the NTMA?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The NTMA, which is not here, told us a bit about the NAMA contracts, some of which come to an end when the work in NAMA finishes. Mr. McDonagh's contract is different. When he moved from the NTMA to NAMA, he went from a salary which, I think, was reported in the media as being around €210,000 to a salary of €430,000. He is going back to a State body. It is the taxpayer who...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is Mr. McDonagh aware of the role he will take up in the NTMA at this point?