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Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach's party should not have allowed it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Sorry, they did not. The people did not vote on the eighth amendment subsequently. They voted on side issues including information.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am glad the Taoiseach is going to consider gender as an issue. It is very generous of him. The last time I looked, only one gender on the planet could become pregnant, namely, women. There seems to be a gulf. The Taoiseach has been here 40 years and was in the Dáil when the eighth amendment was foisted on us. It should not have been put into the Constitution. There are issues...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Really?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil was a bit confused about it, in fairness.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This is embarrassing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil is now the liberal party.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Only on women's bodies?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the proposed citizens' assembly will report back to Dáil Éireann on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [10147/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I know the Taoiseach hates when this topic comes up in Parliament-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----because it is a very messy subject as far as he is concerned but for thousands of women throughout the country it is a key issue. The Taoiseach just listed a host of issues the citizens' assembly will look into, including everything from fixed-term Parliaments to the ageing population but let us throw in the eighth amendment as well. The best that some of the Independent Deputies, who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The question is about the US.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Chairman indicate how it is intended that we will proceed? We will hear from two very different organisations on two different issues. Is it possible to ask questions of one and then the other?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have specific questions on the NTMA but also on this-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: All together.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is just that there are two separate sessions in this-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have quite a few questions.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to tease out why a fund that was a pension reserve fund that was paid for by the public has now become the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. We are being told that it cannot really be used for social housing and I am trying to tease out, for people who watch the proceedings of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness, why that is the case. The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: My question relates to how it can be done off-balance sheet?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On that point, when the NTMA was being established, we pointed out that there should be representatives in it of people who have been affected by the housing crisis. One can have expertise on mortgages and so forth without being a former banker. This appears to be a catch-all for putting the same people who brought the economy to a standstill and cost the State so much into key positions in...