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Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of primary teachers on his Department's payroll who are currently paid a qualification allowance at the pass degree rate. [12258/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of substitute teachers employed per school day, on average, in primary schools; if these positions are taken account of in planning for the supply of teachers; if his attention has been drawn to an acute shortage of teachers to fill substitute teacher positions; and his plans to address this serious issue for schools....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all the recommendations of the Cush report in respect of fixed-term workers in third level colleges have been accepted and implemented by him; and if not, the specific recommendations that remain outstanding. [12260/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the opportunities in terms of training or workplace support programmes available to persons drawing credits but not receiving a social welfare payment; the schemes open to such persons; and his plans to extend options for job training for this category of persons. [12340/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I am sure these figures make much more pleasant reading than the figures from six or seven years ago. What does the NTMA see as our future benefit from QE and the ECB? How does it see that going?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: How much more scope is there for us and for what period?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the NTMA have a calculation for how much Ireland has benefitted from QE? Obviously, interest rates, longevity and all of those things have improved, but does Mr. O'Kelly have a net figure as to how much Ireland benefitted as a country from QE?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: It is now below €7 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Looking at the economy at the moment, a couple of things stand out. One is that our demographics are rather different from those of most other European countries. In the long run, that is very much in our favour. In other words, we have many young children and a much slower rate of ageing, although that will come into play by 2050. We have a much lower rate of aging than most other...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I meet people from the European Investment Bank from time to time, as I am sure other Deputies do, and I leave wanting to pull my hair out as it is so frustrating. In theory they have bags of money there. In practice, it is "not for giving out to you lot" because there is some point or other on which we do not hit perfection. I understand it is out there in the market and has to get...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I see the summaries which Mr. O'Kelly referenced in terms of ISIF's lending. I do not think the housing market will really recover until such time as we have affordable housing for which, say, the likes of some of the NTMA's junior employees might be in a position to get a mortgager, even in the Dublin area where the price is somewhere from €350,000 to €550,000. I just don't...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: If I could ask one other question on the proposed sale by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, of a quarter of AIB, as I understand it, the broad rules are that the money realised must go to pay down debt. In terms of the figures that have been provided to us by the witnesses, what does that do, if anything?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the National Treasury Management Agency have an estimated range of what the sale would yield?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Would it be fair to say it will be a minimum of €2.5 billion unless it is a disaster?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: But what would happen to the graphs if €2.5 billion is realised?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Where in the graphs-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: This is my final question. It is a follow-up question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I have a technical question on the figures. Where are the holdings in the banks included?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: For information, what are the other remits of the NTMA at this time?