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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the grades agency staff in the hospitals and Health Service Executive are filling while covering maternity leave and long-term sick leave; and the number of agency staff at each grade. [43890/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (18 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to fully utilise the educational facilities at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44174/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: On pay levels at the top of the AIB, I note that while they are within the Government's pay cap, they are set at its outer limit. Is it justified to pay staff almost €500,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: I will start with the massive decline in the number of staff over the past six or seven years. What percentage of this decline is attributable to outsourcing? I accept that Mr. Duffy may not be able to give me a precise calculation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: In the context of the answer given to Question No. 13, can Mr. Duffy give details of the functions that have been outsourced in the past 12 months? Are there currently bidding processes open for the outsourcing of other services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Pensions do not necessarily transfer. The kind of pension one would have in AIB would not compare with that in a small outsourced place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Are there bidding processes currently open?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Would AIB take any lesson from Ulster Bank and the maximum fine imposed on it yesterday? Does AIB accept there is a lesson to be learned in terms of the outsourcing of IT services and the offshore setting of jobs, particularly in terms of IT services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Is AIB planning to outsource a larger portion of its IT than is currently outsourced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Have any jobs in the IT or other areas been transferred off-shore?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Where there is outsourcing, does AIB give a commitment that workers will have the right of redeployment or redundancy if they do not wish to transfer to the new entity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, I spoke to a worker in a bank branch in Dublin who said his job was outsourced. Basically, he said he had the choice of going over to the company in question, Noonan's, or redundancy. He had no choice of redeployment within AIB.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: The bank could re-skill people or reallocate them to different areas if it chose to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Where there is outsourcing work, is the decision on the contract chosen based on the lowest possible bid or does it include elements of social responsibility, where the jobs will be or the quality of the jobs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Might where the jobs are located be included in those criteria?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: The number of AIB bank branches is being reduced from 267 to 200, which is a similar cutback to that of the other banks that have attended here. Does AIB envisage closing more branches in the coming period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: If AIB was to close branches, what criteria would be used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: What criteria were used in the past when selecting branches for closure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Would AIB accept, therefore, that this means IT services are a core service of banks, because that is how people interact with banks? They interact through their smart phone app, online banking, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Duffy did not answer fully Question No. 24, which asked whether if the Central Bank's proposed new mortgage deposit and loan to earnings ratio were in place, what percentage of AIB's existing mortgage holders would have qualified for their loans. I presume a relatively large percentage would not have qualified, although I accept it is difficult to give a precise figure.