NTMA restarts bonus payments with near €80,000 outlay in 2014

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) last year paid bonuses to staff for the first time since 2012.

In a Dáil response to Fianna Fáil’s finance spokesman Michael McGrath, Mr Noonan confirmed that bonus payments of €79,200 were paid to 16 NTMA staff in 2014.

Mr Noonan confirmed, however, that no staff at Nama — which also operates under the NTMA umbrella — received a bonus last year. He further confirmed that no performance-related payments were made to any staff earning over €150,000.