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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I know. I have it in my area.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: If the Deputy does not mind, I have probably have seen it in action a lot more-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: My point is that children are still segregated-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----every single day for religious instruction. They should not be. It obviously would not apply to Deputy Micheál Martin. He might live in a monocultural set-up.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not, and nor do many others.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I was constantly interrupted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have obviously touched a raw nerve with Deputy Martin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: May I finish on this point?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On the question of meeting religious leaders, two issues arise: education and the eighth amendment. It seems clear that there has been a change in the Government's position. Under the previous Government which involved the Labour Party, many people were of the impression that there were going to be reforms under which an increasing number of schools would not be faith based but open to all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with religious leaders since the general election. [15855/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the reform of Seanad Éireann. [15854/16]

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The number of people who have been forced into the private rented sector has effectively doubled in Ireland. The private rented sector is the sector of insecurity, stress, poverty and homelessness. Some 40 years ago, local authorities provided one third of all housing in this State. Today, the corresponding provision is minuscule. Instead, low-income families are forced into the private...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform is due to next meet. [15853/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on health is due to next meet. [15852/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-Committee on Housing is due to next meet. [15851/16]

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is unbelievable that having received such a stern rebuke, the Taoiseach is going to continue with the delaying tactic of a citizens' assembly. He has spoken about listening to women in the case of the Magdalens - we could argue that one - and in the case of marriage equality but he did not listen to women when Savita Halappanavar died. At that time, rather than saying it was absolutely...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On Thursday the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a serious condemnation of this State. This is the first opportunity we have had to hear from the Taoiseach directly about how he intends to respond. The human rights committee found Ireland's laws subjected Amanda Mellet to severe emotional and mental pain and suffering by denying her access to abortion services in Ireland. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will continue the practice of his recent predecessors in not signing deeds of variation for national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15952/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has taken to tackle the sewage related pollution that resulted in the closure of the beaches in Rush, Skerries, Balbriggan and Loughshinny in north County Dublin; and how he will ensure that such incidents do not happen in the future. [15569/16]