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Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach knows when he will call the election. Does he anticipate that all Stages will be taken or just Second Stage?

Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will it be guillotined?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Live Register Data (19 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 90. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 15 December 2015, the estimated number of unemployed persons who are not on the live register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46814/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (19 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 285. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2122/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 289. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is in favour of the payment of Private Security Authority licences by instalment, given the low pay of many workers in security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2168/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (14 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish an investigation into the abuse of a person (details supplied) in south County Dublin and how the abuse of that person was investigated. [1622/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (14 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet with a survivor of sexual abuse from south County Dublin (details supplied). [1623/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (14 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of his contacts with the Egyptian authorities regarding a citizen being detained in Egypt (details supplied) whose trial has been adjourned until March 2016 and the consular assistance given to this person. [1627/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (14 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 247. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht given the concern of protestors who have peacefully occupied the area in recent days, if she will intervene in the building works on Moore Street in Dublin 1, to ensure the heritage of the area is preserved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1629/16]

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I send my solidarity to all the people affected by the flooding in the last two months, both farmers and townspeople. I visited Athlone at the request of the Anti-Austerity Alliance branch in the area and of Dom Parker, a representative there, and I visited the homes of some of the people affected. One woman I met, Veronica, was out of her home in 2009 as well. She was fighting to...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very strange that the Government would award this to companies that were under investigation in the United Kingdom. There was no investigation until whistleblowers came forward from within those companies to back up the stories of disabled and unemployed people who were knocked off the dole and forced into jobs that they could not do. There have been countless cases in Britain of...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Not yet.

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not know why the Tánaiste is not answering the questions. She is whispering everything into the ear of the Minister of State.

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: She is choosing not to answer

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the progress made in the implementation of the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1203/16]

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The question asks how JobPath, another of the so-called labour activation measures that have become the stock in trade of the Government, is progressing. Under this scheme, work done previously by FÁS is being outsourced to two large multinational companies, which will bully and harass people on the dole to ensure they accept work of any kind. The companies to which the Department...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is unbelievable that the Labour Party has privatised and outsourced a function that was being carried out by FÁS. The reason given for doing so is that a recruitment embargo has been in place in recent years. It is laughable that the Department charged with creating employment cannot create jobs in the public sector. The companies to which the Department awarded the contracts,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: None of it is working.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On rent controls-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: They have been raised with the Minister but they were fobbed off to her local councillor.