The Northern Ireland Housing Executive has admitted having difficulty in attracting Protestants to apply for employment with them.
The admission came after a former DUP minister, Mr Gregory Campbell, quoted from an internal Housing Executive document detailing that in some regions of Northern Ireland Protestants made up only 24 per cent of the executive's workforce.
Mr Campbell called on the Equality Commission to take immediate action to redress the religious imbalance within the executive's 2,500-strong workforce.
A Housing Executive spokesperson stressed, however, that while there were some regional imbalances, the overall figure of representation for Catholics was 49.2 per cent, while for Protestants it was 49.9 per cent.
A Sinn FΘin MP, Ms Michelle Gildernew, voiced her concern that Mr Campbell, despite no longer being a minister at Stormont, was still given access to internal Housing Executive documents.