50 Nama staff on ‘gardening leave’ for more than three months

Fifty Nama staff members have been placed on “gardening leave” for more than three months, with two on paid leave for six months, the Oireachtas Finance Committee was told.

The committee also heard the agency, which plans to wind up its operations by 2020, has 45 staff members on salaries in excess of €125,000 with a further 51 on salaries in excess of €100,000.

Claims by Nama chairman Frank Daly that the agency would be in a position to transfer a surplus of €3 billion to the Exchequer when its work is completed, were criticised by the committee’s chairman John McGuinness.