State executives take fees for second role

Members of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee have criticised two state agency executives who take fees for sitting on the board of the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA).

Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy said it was “outrageous” that the head of the National Roads Authority Fred Barry, and the head of the National Consumer Agency Ann Fitzgerald had both taken fees of €12,500 each for the past year for sitting on the board of the NDFA.

Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming said Mr Barry and Ms Fitzgerald were both highly paid executives with states agencies and should not be paid fees to sit on the board of another state agency.