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Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: With the legacy of the Taoiseach-----

Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Thank you a Cheann Comhairle, I will bear that in mind. I am going on the information we have and I am generalising. As I said, a judge adjudicated on the case. The Taoiseach is going and I hope the reactionary policies are going with him. I hope the backwardness that was visited on young people in this country for so many decades will also go. The Taoiseach has had his time. Hopefully,...

Resignation of Taoiseach (13 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Honesty in politics is important and so I will not engage in fake backslapping. I congratulate the Taoiseach on writing his own speech, which I believe he did. I was a bit bemused at him mentioning Michael Davitt, a revolutionary and socialist, but we will leave that aside. In summing up the Taoiseach's legacy, I could focus on six years of unprecedented austerity suffered by the many to...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome to the Visitors Gallery people who are directly affected by this ongoing scandal of the so-called mother and baby homes. It is a term that we should start changing, because they were not homes and they were not centred around the mother and the baby. We really need to change the whole language around this issue. Everything about the way the State handles this issue is to avoid,...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2016 to ensure that development with the object or effect of deterring homeless persons from obtaining shelter from a structure, land or building is not exempted development, and to provide for related matters. This purpose of this Bill is to introduce an amendment that would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is absolutely welcome that we could have much more enfranchisement of people in this country. Straight away I support the concept of 16-year-olds voting and I have always believed that it should be the case. We all know the arguments for it in that 16-year-olds could be working and one can join the Army at 17. The idea that a person cannot have a vote until he or she turns 18 is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: What about the numbers in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I seek clarification on the same point. I believed the Bill was proposing that non-citizens in Ireland - people who live here, the people about whom I spoke who make up 12% of the population - would have a right to vote also. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I am wondering how a passport rule could be enforced for others in such circumstances.

Amendment of Terms of Reference of the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We have six.

Amendment of Terms of Reference of the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Six.

Amendment of Terms of Reference of the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It would be nice if the Minister of State actually dealt with the issues rather than something else.

Amendment of Terms of Reference of the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after " 'four members appointed by the Government' ". It is important that Members are aware of what is happening. There is a proposal to change terms of reference for this committee that the Dáil already agreed to, and people should examine that. In my opinion, there is no necessity or justification to introduce what is an effective ban on...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the Minister of State and, by the way, Joan Burton is a Deputy.

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Act was signed into law by the President. It has not yet been commenced. I wish to raise general drug policy in light of that. I am finding that the drug treatment teams in communities are closing down. I hope the legislation is not a ruse to distract from that. I would like the relevant Minister to comment on and intervene regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will report on the cost of the welfare fraud campaign his Department is engaged in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25950/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Administration (31 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 161 and 162 of 17 May 2017, if he will report on the status of maternity benefit applications and the delays there are. [25949/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Ibrahim Halawa (30 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a person (details supplied) currently detained in Egypt awaiting a trial. [25656/17]

Priority Questions: Prisoner Welfare (30 May 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the hunger strike currently taking place among Palestinian prisoners; if he has raised this matter with the Israeli authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25703/17]