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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (15 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 458. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a fund will be set up for the fixing of social housing affected by pyrite, in view of the fact that the current PRB scheme only applies to private housing. [30711/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (15 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 459. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to repair the homes of social housing tenants of Respond in Parnell estate, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15 in view of the fact that they have been paying full rent to Respond, despite the pyrite related deficiencies in their homes and resulting extra heating costs. [30712/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Security Checks (15 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 602. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to ensure that a company (details supplied) will publish a report for Ireland showing the number of requests for information which the State had sought from the company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31673/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Regulations (15 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 748. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure private clamping operators will provide communication access for the deaf community; the steps he has, and will implement on the regulation of private clamping companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31196/14]

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach seems to have learned nothing have after his reshuffle today. On 23 May 2014, his Government took a hammering of Brazil v. Germany proportions but instead of apologising and taking full responsibility for that as Luiz Felipe Scolari did, we are seeing a continuation of the same tactics. In case the Taoiseach is confused, the message the electorate delivered was that it wanted...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I apologise. He is no longer a Minister.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is absolutely galling for people to see him being promoted for what he has done. In his wake, he is leaving Labour in charge of the water charges so it does have a chance of accepting the message delivered by the electorate and announcing the abolition of water charges. The Tánaiste announced that there would be a low pay commission. We do not need a commission on low pay. It...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (10 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the progress of the Action Plan for Jobs 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29910/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (10 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the costs to the Exchequer of initiatives contained in the Action Plan for Jobs 2014. [29911/14]

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: There is another problem with the PPP arrangements that the Minister seems to be prioritising. Others have mentioned the M50 toll road and how much taxpayers paid for it. The Minister of State mentioned Respond! and other housing agencies. While I have no specific problem with any particular housing agency, I have a major problem if the Minister of State is directing that all house...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 16:In page 41, lines 11 to 15, to delete all words from and including ", and" in line 11 down to and including "2010)" in line 15.This relates to the important matter of the ability of councils and other agencies to borrow in order to participate in strategic investment. On page 41 of the Bill we see the effects of successive EU regulations which prohibit the Government...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, I did not realise amendment No. 19 was in this section, as I thought amendment No. 16 was. Could I speak on that?

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to make a few very important points on the amendment. I totally oppose this section and believe it should be deleted. This is meant to be a stimulus package for investment in projects, yet a provision is being written in for another bailout if it is ever needed. Already, €21 billion has been put into two banks from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, and it is now down to...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: That is very difficult.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Has the Minister of State any sense of urgency about this problem? I submitted a written question last week. Six families have been helped by the Tánaiste's much publicised initiative with Threshold. Something is wrong somewhere. Obviously, the Government has no interest because it did not fund the initiative properly, not enough people were available to answer telephones, it was not...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: What we are seeking is the inclusion of social and affordable housing in these projects. The Minister of State has assured us that they will be included, but they are not even listed. That is the point. If they are going to be front and centre in the context of this fund, they should appear on the list of projects. I am amazed - I am not really - that the Minister of State referred to...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: This group of amendments set down by the Socialist Party Deputies seeks to provide for the inclusion of social and affordable housing in the list of projects that would be paid for by the taxpayer out of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and used in the new strategic investment fund. I said yesterday that it was amazing to anyone outside the House that such a thing would be excluded from a...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 8:In page 27, line 32, after “for” to insert “public”.The proposal in these amendments from the Socialist Party concerns the inclusion of the building of social and affordable housing in the strategic projects which will be paid for from taxpayers' funds in the pensions reserve fund being established by the Minister. It is amazing that we...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (8 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Licensing and Harvesting of Seaweed in Ireland: Discussion (8 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I seek clarity. I do not come from a coastal or a Gaeltacht area, nor am I familiar with such areas. However, I am alarmed by what I have read in the submissions and what I have heard today. I know there are other groups from which we are waiting to hear. However, the answers to the key questions lie with Údarás na Gaeltachta as to the reason for what seems to be its strange...