National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014

Payments to Fund

46. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may make payments into the Fund from the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(2) Where the Minister proposes to make a payment into the Fund under subsection (1), the Minister shall move a draft resolution in both Houses of the Oireachtas specifying the amount of the proposed payment and the Minister shall not make the payment until the resolution approving of the payment and the amount of it has been passed by each such House.

(3) A Minister of the Government may transfer into the Fund any non-cash asset, including but not limited to a shareholding or other interest held by that Minister or a nominee of that Minister; and for this purpose “non-cash asset” means any property or interest in property, other than cash (including a foreign currency).