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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?

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

Joan Burton: At one stage, going back to Anne Counihan's time, the NTMA was quite involved in giving the HSE advice on capital spending, about the purchasing of up to date technical equipment such as high level imaging. In effect, the NTMA was carrying out a kind of value for money analysis and seeing if it could be done on a regional basis. At the moment there are problems in quite a significant part...

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

Joan Burton: Only over €20 million.

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

Joan Burton: What if they bundled projects together? We have a lot of hospitals now with equipment that is so old it is embarrassing and that will continue. If we could find a mechanism where equipment could be renewed much more rapidly. There was something of a mechanism before, I am not saying that it was perfect but it resulted in a big improvement in things such as MRI machines being provided to...

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

Joan Burton: Okay, thank you.

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]

Other Questions: Banking Sector (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State for confirming there has been engagement with both the Sparkassen bank and, perhaps, the German Government, which has been promoting this idea. In my experience as a Minister for over five years, the greatest impediment to this was the Department of Finance, so I am interested to hear the Minister of State say the same Department is now being co-operative. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I regret that the Minister has not discussed them with the Minister for Finance.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: What have the Ministers discussed?

Other Questions: Banking Sector (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 26. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress of the investigation into the establishment of a public banking system here by her Department; the likely timeframe for the investigation; the stakeholders involved; the way in which interested parties can make submissions to the investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11608/17]