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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: I do not know how much of it we are doing because the emphasis seems to be on getting units back into use for the people who own them. Councils are buying houses on the open market and I do not have a problem with that because there is an emergency and it has to be done but we all know that is not a sensible policy in the long term because it means buying houses at top dollar when they could...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: It is in the Estimates.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: I know but I ask the Chairman not to be partisan. Water and the spending on water are mentioned here and I am going to get around to it now.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: With respect to the three people who are here, there is plenty of time. I just wanted to ask a question about water related to page 4 of the Estimates.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister implement legislation to abolish water charges if that is what is voted for by the committee and by the Dáil?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: Frankly, they had found a resolution of the point-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: That committee was set up by the Dáil to find a resolution. If it finds a resolution, will the Minister implement it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: Why not?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: That is not the Chairman's decision. Water is on the agenda of this committee as well, and I am asking the Minister about it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: It is not affordable mortgages.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I asked about affordable mortgages.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: I am sure the Minister does.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Ruth Coppinger: There were 48 last year.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the junior certificate English examination, in view of the industrial relations dispute with the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10413/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the process for awarding patronage of new secondary schools in the Dublin 15 area; if the diversity in the population was considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10412/17]
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity was reborn last week and hit Tesco with a vengeance. When Tesco management announced its intention to cut workers' pay and rip up the contracts of people who had worked for it, for three decades in some cases, forcing them out on strike, it assumed it could isolate a small group of workers within the workforce but it seriously underestimated two things. The first is the workers...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 5. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 24 January 2017, when the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform will take place. [8460/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the public support for the Apollo House occupation, he will support making all remaining suitable NAMA lands available for social and affordable housing and allocating NAMA’s cash reserves towards the provision of social and affordable housing. [2177/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concentration in ownership of residential development land by vulture funds as a result of land sales by NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2180/17]