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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: There should be emergency legislation to stop evictions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the Chair. The Minister might think the meeting is getting a bit tetchy. This is the most significant crisis in the country. One would expect a full Press Gallery to be present when the Minister is present to answer to the housing committee. Unfortunately the issue blows hot and cold in the media. It is sexy for one or two weeks then it goes off the boil again. Some people here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I was not referring to that. There was a special housing and homeless committee that met last summer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That was not the impression. The Minister is extremely sensitive. I do not know who has been advising the Minister and the Taoiseach but perhaps they should do a few yoga lessons or something.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the non-provision of medication, such as the contraceptive pill, in State funded hospitals that have a religious-based ethos (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40914/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank all the speakers for their presentations and contributions. In reference to an earlier point, the speakers were asked here for their legal opinions. They were asked to give a range of opinions and people giving opinions is not banned in the committee. In fact, we all had the option of recommending and suggesting people to give their opinions. My questions relate to what was...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Is it not time we grasped the nettle and faced reality?

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Taoiseach agree that the timing of this will be very important? He said May or June but for young people, who will most affected by the outcome of the referendum, May would be the optimal time as it was in the marriage equality referendum, rather than a time when students are on the move. We await what comes out of the Dáil committee, of which I am a member. I have heard...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I have another 16 seconds.

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: They must be able to focus on the committee as a critical way to get the change we need.

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I hope I am not treated to the same patronising and condescending response that the Taoiseach just gave to the previous female Deputy.

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Tens of thousands of people will take to the streets of the capital this Saturday in what may well be the largest march for choice we have seen in this country. It begins at 2 p.m. at Parnell Square. Yesterday, the Taoiseach announced that a referendum on the eighth amendment will be held in May or June 2018. After all the campaigning and marching, and after years of being told there was...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (26 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Israeli authorities to inform them of Ireland's opposition to the deportation of four persons (details supplied) who were in Israel and Palestine on a peaceful solidarity visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40191/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (26 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request clarification from the Israeli authorities for the reasons for the deportation of four persons (details supplied). [40192/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Crisis Pregnancy Services (26 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of his review of the Regulation of Information (Services Outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995 in order that the law related to giving false information on terminations of pregnancy is strengthened (details supplied) [40394/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (26 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will end the obligation of greyhound owners to register with a club (details supplied) and pay a registration fee to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40335/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: When will the Garda Síochána Bill be ready relating to complaints and investigations by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission? I raise this in light of the news last night that all charges have been dropped against future Jobstown defendants.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I named the legislation already.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Does this not now warrant independent investigation into why this fiasco began and went as far as it did, in respect of money and the resources of the Garda, and given that the evidence of the gardaí is not now considered fit for a jury. Is the Tánaiste concerned that the only person now convicted in respect of that event is a minor? He now has a criminal conviction hanging over...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: All the people have been vindicated and that young man should not have this hanging over him.