Results 2,561-2,580 of 7,203 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations (31 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 5 December 2017, the status of the delivery of a footbridge between the Ashington area and Pelletstown in order to facilitate access to the new Broombridge Luas station for pedestrians in the wider Navan road area. [4926/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Hungary. [1789/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Legislation (30 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 149 to 151, inclusive, of 14 November 2017, if he has received further clarity from the bodies involved regarding possible religious discrimination in a job interview. [4602/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Question Heading for question(s) 578 (30 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of gender recognition certificates issued in each of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. [3961/18]
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has discretion.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: They had better be good.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Motion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I have a few concerns on this matter. Everybody wants to see this being done in circumstances where commercial units can be brought into use for families and individuals. No one wants to delay the process but it is right that there should be some debate because what is proposed is that, until the end of 2021, vacant commercial units can become residential units without being subjected to...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I urge the Government to stick with the recommendation of the Oireachtas committee of simple repeal. It could flounder us in massive delays on this issue.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: We did not support it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: My question is on promised legislation on repeal and a referendum on the issue of the eighth amendment. I know the Government is getting legal advice and I want to remind it that the committee I took part in, which weighed up evidence not just over weeks but months, had its own legal adviser who outlined six options for dealing with the issue. There was no support at the committee for an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I refer to pillar 4, which is the rental sector. Paragraph 4.1 says the Government will develop a rental strategy. With the homeless figures showing no sign of abating and the private rented sector being the place where people generally become homeless, the Minister will agree that this is urgent. Rebuilding Ireland says the Minister will deal with the issue of tenants in situwhere there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: A briefing on HAP was sent to us in advance. Given that this is such a significant part of the Government's social housing strategy, how concerned is the Minister about the rate of rent being paid in local authority areas? When I was reading through the briefing, I noticed that the top rents under HAP are paid in Fingal and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown where the average monthly payment by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: If they left the market, those houses would then be sold. The houses do not disappear. This is constantly used-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I would have raised that issue if I had known that we could-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Are we going to get a chance to raise it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: To clarify, obviously everyone wants to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Will we get to it before the Minister has to leave?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: That is fine, as long as we get to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Did the Minister have a problem with those houses up in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister is never there for the evictions.