Results 4,501-4,520 of 6,910 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What does Mr. Cummins mean by "worked in the past"?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is Mr. Cummins saying that the private sector not being involved is the problem, rather than the local authorities not being involved?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am just trying to clarify what Mr. Cummins is saying.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Sorry?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have never liked the fact that in the Dáil, the Government frequently blames local authorities for the lack of house building or the housing crisis. Ministers say that they have given local authorities the money and that the Taoiseach has told them to go and work away with that. However, I must say that I am very disappointed by what I have heard today. Basically, local authority...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Could Mr. Brady end the self accommodation thing, which is torture for people, if he had more staff? It is really difficult for people to source their own accommodation like that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I was not talking about Ms Nic Aongusa, but about the Ministers.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 94. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 who experienced difficulties with the ambulance service and treatment in hospital following strokes; the actions he will take to prevent such issues arising again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13691/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 110. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 24 May 2016, the number of new staff and level of extra funding that will be invested in the national ambulance service to ensure there is a high quality and responsive ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13690/16]
- Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They do it in Seattle.
- Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Workers there are paid $15 an hour.
- Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I know but I do not think there is a rush for time either.
- Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There are reports about ambulances, and response times can be dramatically improved when money and personnel are provided but the idea that people do not know where they are going or arriving from different counties is absolutely outrageous. The family needs and wants answers.
- Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I refer to a case to which I have been alerted by a constituent. It sums up the problems people are experiencing in the health service which the new committee should examine and research. Obviously, the Minister and the HSE also need to provide answers. I have checked the details of the case with the constituent and they want to have this issue aired publicly. People want to have such...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Does the Taoiseach find it weird that a number of gay politicians do not seem to extend the same civil rights to women when it comes to deciding over our bodies? I find that really weird. This is very simple. The Taoiseach can complicate it all he likes but we need to repeal the eight amendment of the Constitution. As Deputy Bríd Smith and I have said, what we want is a referendum to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The rest of the Deputy's-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. They do not have to have an abortion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We are all pro-life.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: So let the woman decide.