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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has consulted with Government Departments, including the Department of Health, the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Justice and Equality, on difficulties in recruiting and retaining certain types of public servants arising from the two-tier pay system and other pay reductions applied during the economic...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 73. To ask the Taoiseach the number of workers on temporary contracts and on temporary employment as a percentage of employment for each year since 2008, in tabular form. [13638/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 74. To ask the Taoiseach the number and percentage of low paid and minimum wage workers that are women. [13639/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 75. To ask the Taoiseach the number and percentage of part-time workers that are women. [13640/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 76. To ask the Taoiseach the number and percentage of workers earning less than the living wage of €11.50 an hour for each year since 2008, in tabular form [13641/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Loan Books Purchasers (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on his meetings with a bank (details supplied) in 2016; if he discussed the sale of the bank's sale of its distressed mortgage portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 519. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number in receipt of family income supplement for each year since 2008; and the projected number this year. [13643/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 666. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the proposed industrial action by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth to express its concern on staff shortages; and his plans to resolve the situation. [12720/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on puppy farming; his views on the welfare of dogs in this environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 907. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of agency workers employed in the State for each year since 2008, in tabular form. [13636/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 908. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and size of employment agencies operating in the State for each year since 2008. [13637/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Chairman indicate how it is intended that we will proceed? We will hear from two very different organisations on two different issues. Is it possible to ask questions of one and then the other?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have specific questions on the NTMA but also on this-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: All together.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is just that there are two separate sessions in this-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have quite a few questions.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to tease out why a fund that was a pension reserve fund that was paid for by the public has now become the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. We are being told that it cannot really be used for social housing and I am trying to tease out, for people who watch the proceedings of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness, why that is the case. The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: My question relates to how it can be done off-balance sheet?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On that point, when the NTMA was being established, we pointed out that there should be representatives in it of people who have been affected by the housing crisis. One can have expertise on mortgages and so forth without being a former banker. This appears to be a catch-all for putting the same people who brought the economy to a standstill and cost the State so much into key positions in...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: When the NTMA was set up, we told the Minister at the time that there should be representatives on the NTMA to advocate for people affected by the housing crisis. The whole point of the NTMA was the debt we had incurred, and the people who incurred the debt are now getting positions through money that is being invested by the NTMA, which is a little ironic.