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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of average cuts paid by his Department and those under his aegis to recruitment and temporary employment agencies, that is the proportion of the fee paid from State funding to such agencies is receivd by the worker and the proportion by the agency. [42709/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the details of average cuts paid by his Department and those under his aegis to recruitment and temporary employment agencies, that is the proportion of the fee paid from State funding to such agencies is receivd by the worker and the proportion by the agency. [42708/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of average cuts paid by her Department and those under her aegis to recruitment and temporary employment agencies, that is the proportion of the fee paid from State funding to such agencies received by the worker and the proportion by the agency. [42706/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 254. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the details of average cuts in payments by his Department and those under its aegis to recruitment and temporary employment agencies, that is, the proportion of the fee paid from State funding to such agencies received by the worker and by the agency. [42704/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of the average cut paid by his Department and those bodies under its aegis to recruitment and temporary employment agencies, that is the proportion of the fee paid from State funding to such agencies received by the worker and the proportion by the agency. [42713/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Contracts (6 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 269. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the details of the average cut paid by her Department and those bodies under its aegis to recruitment and temporary employment agencies, that is the proportion of the fee paid from State funding to such agencies received by the worker and the proportion received by the agency. [42702/14]

Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: We started ten minutes late.

Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: You can extend the time allowed. We started ten minutes late.

Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very rare that we get a chance to question the Minister.

Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I know that, but is this a ruse by the Government not to show up?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose and function of the income tax exemption for non-resident holders of Irish Government securities and the reason the cost of this tax expenditure has increased from €240.8 million in 2007 to €619 million in 2012; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of beneficiaries each year and the benefit per person; and if the latter...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT will be applied to water supplied by Irish Water in view of the fact that the company is not a local authority; and if he will report on any consultations with the EU Commission on the matter. [41764/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the report of the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland entitled, "Asylum seekers and refugees surviving on hold: Sexual violence disclosed to Rape Crisis Centres"; and the measures her Department will take to provide support and assistance to asylum seekers and refugees that are victims of sexual violence. [42313/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to abolish fees for graduate entry to medicine; the actions she will take to ease the financial burden on graduate entry medical students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42314/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the charging of the student service charge to apprentices; her views that the charge is a disincentive and a barrier to apprentices' training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42351/14]

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The situation facing people in mortgage arrears and the housing crisis are the two burning issues that should have been addressed by this Government. Instead of this, however, the EU, the troika and the code of conduct on mortgage arrears put pressure on the banks to resolve mortgage arrears, which effectively means repossessing homes. I am seeing the effects of that policy in my own area...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It failed over the summer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It has failed.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Four thousand women a year will still go.