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Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity supports this motion from the Green Party. The position of women who give birth to premature babies is not satisfactory and it highlights the lack of provision in general for pregnant women in this country. As the motion points out, a woman can defer her maternity leave but that is completely impractical given the fact that premature babies will often be in neonatal units and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I apologise to the Chairman but I must leave to speak in the Dáil now. I would have liked to participate in this discussion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It seems that the seriousness of this issue had not permeated the Government. The reputation of the whole system of justice has never been so low, yet the Taoiseach has not bothered to convene a committee on which key players sit and is choosing not to use the forum in question. If the Government is looking after all of this, why is the Taoiseach persisting with the fallacy that it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach should stop talking down the clock and answer my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I referred to the Garda, not the commission.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Ceann Comhairle must take up with the Taoiseach his avoidance of the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: May I ask a supplementary question given that the Taoiseach went one minute over time?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform last met. [16454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the funds due to the State from religious congregations for the redress scheme; if he has received commitments from the religious congregations regarding the payment of the balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the report of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Nils MuiŽnieks, relating to religious discrimination in school admissions and in the running of schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for national asset residential property services, NARPS, units leased under the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, after NAMA ceases; his plans for private investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if persons accommodated in family hubs will be included in his Department's statistics on the number of homeless persons in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17029/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new build local authority completions excluding voids and regeneration units for each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of the relevant legislation governing short stay rental accommodation providers, such as (details supplied); the need for reforms to this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of information on estate management fees payable by tenants living in social housing managed by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17032/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the main differences in the way in which local authorities and approved housing bodies select or approve tenants; the legal basis for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17033/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 497 of 17 January 2017, the details of the 4,698 AHB new build units to be completed under the Rebuilding Ireland plan, showing the number of new build units to be completed by each AHB by 2021, in tabular form. [17034/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of first, second and third time HAP, housing assistance payment, tenancies set up each year since the scheme was introduced in tabular form; the number of first HAP tenancies still in place; and the average tenancy length to date of HAP tenancies. [17035/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister, Deputy Ross, has come a long way from when he was on this side of the House ranting and raving. Some people were fooled by the label "Independent" in that they actually thought that he was independent. This is a wish fulfilment for the Minister. According to Michael O'Leary, the Minister is playing a blinder. However, he has an ideological opposition to public services and...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the bus workers from Bus Éireann who are in the Gallery. It is welcome that talks have been announced in the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, tomorrow. It is also very welcome that the workers are maintaining the pickets while those talks take place. Those talks will be absolutely fruitless unless three things happen: first, the Minister, Deputy Ross, increases the...