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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The point is that we are meant to believe there are Chinese walls between people who are investigating, KPMG. It is just ludicrous. Nobody outside this Chamber-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----believes that. How does the Minister expect people to believe in this when somebody who had a beneficial interest in this sale is now investigating it and that a judge will step in on occasion? That is not an independent inquiry. I know the Minister was concerned because he had a number of meetings about this whole issue and his officials were clearly concerned, but it seems that he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Did the Minister not attend a number of meetings about this in which he expressed his concern? He said that his patience was wearing thin in relation to all of the players involved-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----but yet he came into the Dáil on a number of occasions and he did not give that information.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the inquiry into the sale of Siteserv and other companies at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation contains sufficient safeguards to prevent any conflicts of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17762/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: My question is also on conflicts of interest relating to Siteserv. The Minister said that any potential public concerns about conflicts of interest will be addressed by a High Court judge and that every fact has been put on the table. Some 19 questions were asked of the Minister before this blew up and the information has been pulled and dragged from him, rather than put on the table. Can...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 15. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the recent sale of shares in Permanent TSB and the repayment of the Government’s contingency capital notes in the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17573/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost of debt service on the national debt; the interest and repayments for each year from 2015 to 2020; and the projected increases in public spending for each of these years. [17574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the consultations between his Department and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation on the sale of corporation’s United States of America loan book; if he will report on the loss to the Exchequer from the sale of the loan book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17572/15]

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I also wanted to ask about the forthcoming legislation. When will the Government bring forward the water services Bill to address outstanding issues reflected in the Government's water package in November 2014? It has been six months since that motion was put before us. Deputy after Deputy has asked the Taoiseach about the landlord issue. The Government is obviously having problems with...

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Can the Taoiseach clarify that any law the Government brings in will involve an individual going in front of a judge and an attachment order being put against them and that the idea of half a million or a million people being brought before a judge and having such orders placed against them is absolute lunacy?

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Why did the Taoiseach not bring in the same law against the bankers and developers who brought this country to ruin?

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Can I have an answer?

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is about the water services Bill. It is on the list of legislation.

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Taoiseach clarify-----

Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Stick with the topic.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered increasing rent supplement or taking other measures to remedy the difficulties faced by persons in securing accommodation. [17330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of families that will be impacted by the change in the one-parent family payment, due to take place fully this summer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17331/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Gender Recognition (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the resolution passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on transgender rights; if she supports the full implementation of the principles in that resolution into Irish law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17367/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (6 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 268. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the level of the charge for those getting their fingerprints taken at Garda stations for purposes of visa applications in other states when charges were introduced; the number of fingerprints taken in the years 2011 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17738/15]