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Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I am sorry. There is no question that a Citizens' Assembly on gender equality will have its work cut out for it because there are so many issues such as the gender pay gap, the costliest childcare in Europe that often prevents women getting promoted and continuing in employment, precarious housing and jobs and the pensions Deputy Burton mentioned. She was also responsible for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: It is difficult to have equality when women's lives and safety are also at risk. The Taoiseach agrees that according to the statistics there is an epidemic of violence against women. Of the 225 women who have been murdered since 1996, nine out of ten were killed by their own partners and 61% were killed in their own homes. We signed the Istanbul Convention but we have only one in three...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the preparations for the Citizens' Assembly on gender equality. [43149/19]

Acknowledgement and Apology to Women and Families affected by CervicalCheck Debacle: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the women, men and families who have come to the House today. I realise that, for them, it must be at least somewhat of an important step that there would be a formal State apology. It is an apology in words but is it an apology in deeds? We continue to outsource a vital health service and still women are being pursued by the State through the courts. Those two vital issues have...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a fund will be re-established to assist childcare facilities in meeting fire and other safety criteria; if a fire safety audit of all premises in which there are childcare facilities will be conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43278/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will revise the eligibility criteria for carer's benefit in view of the fact that carers may not have full employment records in the 26 weeks prior to formally taking up full-time caring duties (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43509/19]

Living Wage: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “not to increase the national minimum wage; and” and substitute the following:“—introduce a minimum wage of €12.30 per hour in 2020 as a step towards €15 per hour.”

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The EU has been put forward as the force that will safeguard the interests of people on this island during Brexit. Yet it has played a role in the Spanish state's horrendous actions in Catalonia, not only during the referendum but also in the draconian imprisonment of its people. Seven pro-independence leaders have been sentenced to between ten and 12 years in prison by an EU country. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I failed to get an answer on this issue. A €70 million cut in the capital budget for education was announced the day after the budget. As the Taoiseach knows well, approximately ten projects in Dublin West, and I am sure other TDs know of others, are awaiting new school buildings or repair of school buildings. I refer to projects like Corduff national schools, Edmund Rice Schools...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: That is two.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: There is no fear of that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: What are the options?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: We are Brexited out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment will next meet. [38543/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach is not exactly acting as if his house is on fire given that the committee is due to meet only once before the end of the year. Apart from the increase in the carbon tax, which the Government levied across the board on all workers and the disabled and which is, therefore, regressive, what real measures has the Government taken to deal with the biggest crisis facing the planet? ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I will finish on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Cabinet consider free public transport, which has been pioneered in many cities and in Luxembourg?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The workers pay for Brexit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: As the Taoiseach knows, a very popular referendum was held in this country last year, with a record number of people turning out to vote. Thousands of us campaigned for many years for the right to abortion services in Ireland. However, it now transpires that just over half of the country's 19 maternity units are providing full abortion services, namely, the three Dublin maternity hospitals...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with religious leaders on 4 July 2019 and the matters that were discussed. [38542/19]