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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I will speak after that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Could we go on to pillar 2 while the Minister is here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have a question on the issue of mixed tenure. I want to respond to what the Minister said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister did not answer a lot of my questions. For example, I asked about meeting Fingal County Council. I asked many questions on the homeless problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a bit blasé, if you do not mind me saying that. Homelessness is concentrated in a number of locations. My frustration stems from the fact that 40% of Dublin's homeless are in my constituency but the Minister has not prioritised meeting that local authority and asking why it has no plans to deal with the situation or explain what he can do to help them. It is a bit blasé for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Here we go again. The Minister is talking about many elements that come under pillar 2, but we cannot ask about items under that pillar.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: That is a separate issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: No. I wanted to raise that aspect but I was not allowed to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There is an increase in landlords and rent. The Residential Tenancies Board figures show that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What day is the next meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What time?
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Socialist Party, the Anti-Austerity Alliance and People Before Profit are under no illusions regarding the European Union but it is hilarious to hear people on the other side of the House talking about a completely different EU to the one they spoke about a month ago. They are now talking about its lack of democracy. It seems that the European Union is okay when it is inflicting...
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There would be no charity if companies paid tax.
- Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: When Fianna Fáil was in power.
- Other Questions: Child Care Costs (21 Jul 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 5 o’clock As with the previous government, every time the issue of child care costs is raised the Government trots out the subject of the free preschool year. That scheme benefits parents who have children from the ages of three to five. Unfortunately it does not benefit anybody else. Children need care for more than 61 weeks of their childhood. The scheme offers to cover...
- Other Questions: Child Care Costs (21 Jul 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I hope the Minister will come up with something more imaginative then just the free preschool year, welcome as it is. After that provision is made, families still have to pay huge amounts in child care costs. Ironically, the Government spends approximately €260 million per year on child care. This is about the same amount that Ireland will be paying to the EU for our leprechaun...
- Other Questions: Child Care Costs (21 Jul 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to tackle the high cost of child care in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23028/16]
- Other Questions: Child Care Costs (21 Jul 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What are the Minister's plans to tackle the high cost of child care in the State? This issue seems to have fallen off the Government's agenda but it is one of the most serious issues for young families. We have the highest child care costs in the European Union. It is a second mortgage for many families. A crèche place in Dublin, for example, can cost €998 a month compared...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Of 26% growth.