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Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the accommodation of homeless children in adult homeless accommodation; the actions she has taken on the welfare of homeless children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14844/16]

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I know the Minister is only new to the job, but I wanted her to comment on what I believe is the greatest welfare scandal in the country, namely, the fact there has been a doubling of the number of children in homeless accommodation, as well as a doubling of the number of adults. There is no greater task ahead of the Minister than resolving this issue, and I would like to hear how she...

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister rightly mentioned the cases where no other accommodation could be found and children had to be put into adult hostels, sleeping on blow-up beds. It is an absolute scandal in an EU state. There are 2,121 homeless children, and the figures have doubled. I have seen in Dublin West, where we have a homelessness crisis, that there are serious knock-on impacts on children from...

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am on the Committee on Housing and Homelessness and I have just taken a break to ask this question. One of the contributions to the committee came from SONAS housing association which reported that women and children are choosing to stay in violent homes rather than go into homelessness. The health of children and women is being jeopardised because of this situation. The Minister took...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the child protection and welfare issues where the lack of availability of alternative housing is adding to the difficulties faced by children in households where there is domestic violence; the action she has taken on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14845/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on giving recognition to Traveller ethnicity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15085/16]

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It does not.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There is nothing against that in the Constitution.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: You allowed the Taoiseach say something completely wrong last week and he did not have to correct it.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Is that the Taoiseach correcting the record?

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Now you know what it is like for us.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Can the Taoiseach tell the House when the Minister for Education and Skills will introduce the Bill on school patronage that he spoke about? He must agree that the expectation and demand among a growing number of people is for equality in education, and one would have thought that the priority of the Minister would be to outlaw discrimination against children on the basis of their religion....

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am concluding, a Cheann Comhairle. Other schools will become more Catholic, but what we could see is schools not being available to those who have no faith. I ask the Taoiseach to reconsider going down this road and allow for the fact that there is now huge diversity in this country. He should move with the times.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the cost of accommodation for students; the steps he will take in the coming months for the 2016-17 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide assistance to the Dublin students union in the National University of Ireland in its proposed publicity campaign related to rent-a-room accommodation. [14745/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will instruct his officials to clearly include the post office network as an option for payments from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14811/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 356. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a report from the ambassador to Brazil regarding the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a group of 30 or more men that has sparked protests against sexual violence against women in Brazil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14548/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Disputes (8 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 677. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the decision by staff at Oberstown youth detention centre to proceed with industrial action on 31 May 2016. [14585/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome that the Minister now acknowledges this is an emergency. It is a word I found it difficult to get the previous Government to say and that has not helped in preventing this tsunami of homelessness from developing. Before I ask the Minister about the housing targets and how he envisages that issue being resolved, does he agree with me that if this is an emergency, the first thing we...