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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the implementation of the provisions of the International Protection Act 2015; if she is satisfied that asylum seekers are gaining access to sufficient legal advice and translation services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15752/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will change the regulations so persons applying for jobseeker's benefit payments will be assessed on the most recent complete tax year, in order to end the inequity of contributions made by employees in the previous year not being taken into account when calculating jobseeker's benefit, for example, the relevant tax year for jobseeker's...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity welcomes the opportunity to discuss the delivery of the new children's hospital and how best to deliver quality health care for children. We have serious misgivings about the cost of the new hospital. As the motion outlines, there has been an increase in the cost from €404 million in 2012 to approximately €1 billion in 2017. We are told that much of the added cost...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: When will the judicial council Bill be brought before the Dáil? Will it deal with what I believe to be a sinister development? The Director of Public Prosecutions has sent a letter to defendants who are facing trial in April in respect of events in Jobstown. She has asked them not to participate in an event at Liberty Hall on Saturday which has been widely advertised and which will be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: This is the most political trial of the decade.

Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the tabling of the debate albeit we should also be discussing the Bus Éireann strike. I send solidarity to the workers who will be here later today. On the impasse in the assembly in the North, I note that the Good Friday Agreement has created a period of relative peace and an important opportunity for working class and ordinary people to build a political alternative to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he had with a bank (details supplied) regarding the announcement of branch closures and jobs losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact of branch closures of a bank (details supplied) on the availability of banking services to persons here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with the Financial Services Union regarding the branch closures and job losses announced in a bank (details suppled). [15648/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 199. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she will take regarding the announced 220 job losses in a bank (details supplied); if she will meet with the bank and the Financial Services Union regarding this threat to employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15649/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It was. It has been in existence for years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The are using European-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, the Democratic Unionist Party was set up in 1971.

Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: May I raise a point on that?

Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I know the Business Committee discussed this but I wanted to put on the record of the House that there is a major national strike taking place in Bus Éireann. The Government may try to pretend it does not have any role in that, but as a major shareholder, it does. The matter has not been discussed in the Dáil and is not on the agenda. To me, the obvious time for discussion would...

Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is not the first inaccuracy I have pointed out. It probably will not be the last.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Could we have just one more minute, between myself and Deputy Ó Snodaigh, for a supplementary?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Of all the referendums in all the world, the one the Taoiseach announced on the flight to the United States was rather funny. The Constitutional Convention recommended that the voting age be reduced to 16 years of age and that economic social and cultural rights be enshrined in the Constitution. I would have thought the removal of the reference to the role of women was somewhat more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Why were they awarded the Castleknock secondary school then?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for referendums on constitutional amendments; and the issues that may be dealt with. [15211/17]