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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On what grounds?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On the issue of reassurance that the Minister raised in response to the point of privatisation, privatisation can happen under any government. It does not matter if we take his word for it. This Government is very much in favour of privatisation. Broadband is to be privatised. The health service potentially would have been privatised so one can understand why people hold such a view. On...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is the issue of reassurance-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder what we are doing here, or whether we are simply wasting our time. We have had a commission established with a Chairman who has already got a preconceived outcome-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, are you interested in facilitating a discussion on one of the major issues that is being debated in the country?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have. I ask the Minister at the outset to reassure us that there is a point to us as a Dáil committee even discussing this because already it seems that we are discussing a commission at the end of the debate, when a chairman has been selected who has a preconceived outcome in his own mind as to what it should be. When will we hear as a committee who else will be on this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Equally, they could be dealt with in this Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I would like to comment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a serious issue because the impression given by the new coalition was that an independent commission had been established with an independent chair. People can have personal views and, as the Minister stated, we all have personal views on issues. However, the chairman, in advance of the commission's establishment, has expressed strong views that are opinionated and biased in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UK Referendum on EU Membership (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had contact with party leaders in the United Kingdom regarding the UK's exit from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19458/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed the issues in the charity Console with the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19732/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 308. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why he has increased the maximum rent limits at a lower rate in Fingal than in other areas in County Dublin under the rent supplement scheme, given the acute housing crisis in the Fingal area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19594/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 428. To ask the Minister for Health his discussions regarding the charity Console and the funding it received; if he will examine the spending of public funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19732/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if a vacancy for a speech and language therapist for adults in Dublin West will be filled (details supplied); to report on the current length of the waiting list for these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19114/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 573. To ask the Minister for Health his discussions regarding the charity Console and the funding it received; if he has asked the Health Service Executive or his Department to audit the funding given; the safeguard provisions he is putting in place for the services provided by this charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19731/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm), 2016: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (30 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: So the Government will cut teachers' pay with no debate in the Dáil.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm), 2016: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (30 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Tairgim:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. The simple request of the Bill is to seek to hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. I move the Bill on behalf of the Anti-Austerity Alliance and People Before Profit, whose six...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is vital that we debate it.