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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: So you want to change public sector pay scales?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Cut the top pay scales then.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wanted to contribute to this debate because, obviously, I was a public servant, a teacher, at the time the FEMPI measures were enforced. There are many public servants and teachers following this debate with interest. There would have more of them in the Gallery had the debate not commenced earlier than scheduled. Statistics published last night show that the rent situation in this...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Just say it is adjourned.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: That is bollocks. Sorry. That is untrue.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is completely untrue.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Sorry, but it is completely untrue that any councillors voted against social housing.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Could the time just not be extended?

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We are running ahead of time.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is the ISIF-NTMA way of funding housing.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister may want to comment because we had a problem identifying this off balance sheet model. Nobody could do it. This is the questionable off balance sheet way that is being used by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, lately, including the Quadrant Real Estate Advisors fund which was used in the liquidation of Clerys as well. I want to raise another element quickly, that...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We are told that the traditional way of building housing for those who needed it was through local authorities down through the years. After the biggest housing crisis, and the last one we had was in the 1970s, that was how it was done. That will be minimised under this new off balance sheet way because the Minister will have to finance his housing development. It is not because everybody...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----but it has been surprising and disappointing that Sinn Féin has bought into it as well.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Sinn Féin has accepted the off balance sheet model as being workable and also, on the last day of the committee, watered down the social proposal that was in the report, which is disappointing. There is a big difference between direct building of local authority housing by local authorities and increasing the social housing stock through acquisitions, voids, refurbishments and build....

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Figures from a report expected later tonight will show that rents are now eating about 40% of the incomes of a couple on the average wage, that mortgages in Dublin are the third highest in Europe after London and Amsterdam and that 147,000 families are now confirmed to be on the housing waiting lists. I could go on. It is disappointing that we are having the housing debate during the...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There is no fear of that happening.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (7 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish a commission of investigation into Garda Síochána conduct prior to the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20403/16]

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (6 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: So did yours.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Over a 40-year career, a teacher starting out now faces a loss of €250,000 compared to when I started teaching. Does the Minister think that is justified? The starting salary for a teacher now is €8,500 less than it was a few years ago, which is a 20% cut. The Minister is maintaining that in the new agreement. The reason the ASTI and others have not signed up to the...