The Minister for Finance is expected to ask the Cabinet to approve a plan that would see restrictions on salary and variable pay for bankers working at lenders which were bailed out by the State eased.

Could we soon see a return of the banker bonus?

Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein TD for Donegal and the party’s Finance Spokesperson, and Professor Stephen Kinsella, Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Limerick and Chief Economics writer at The Currency discussed with Pat.