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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister said the Government went through every single option. Ninety percent of the cost of this would be borne by the State. This is not a rural versus urban issue, as some Deputies are trying to suggest in the local election campaign.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not in the interest of anybody in an urban area that other people do not have broadband. Rural projects will suffer and be wiped out because of this.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister and his colleagues should not start that in the campaign trail. He should answer the question as to why the State cannot do this. The champagne corks are popping in French companies-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: -----and companies all over the world in light of this deal.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is the other 25% we are concerned about.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the need for an autism specific school in western areas of Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19842/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the efforts made on raising these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18441/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 1392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce a change to the calculation for the State pension (contributory) for those that are unable to avail of the homecaring periods scheme or the homemaker's scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18400/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 1459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of pensioners who had their pensions assessed under the homecaring periods scheme; the number who received a back payment; the number still to have their pension assessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19620/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 1616. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding from Údarás na Gaeltachta provided to a company (details supplied) in 2018. [19679/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (8 May 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: 1617. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of employees in a company (details supplied) which received Údarás na Gaeltachta grant aid. [19680/19]
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: A few hours.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: That was because none of them has any residents to represent.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: From the Seanad (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It is quite incredible that the Seanad would wipe out some of the protections in the Bill relating to the health of residents. I will use the example of a family who will now be unable to get any insulation or protection from noise because of votes that may take place here today. This family is extremely disappointed and demoralised and will have lost all faith in the political system if...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: Landlords should be able to sell with tenants in situ.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: It began five years ago under the Labour Party. It is going on years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: They are not. They all have a curfew also.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: There is an alcohol ban as well.
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: I also want to use this opportunity to bring home to people the real plight of people by highlighting the horrendous cases of family homelessness that we have dealt with at my constituency office. I will pick three examples for the Minister in order to demonstrate the impact on families and young people in particular. The first involves a mother and her six children who have been living in...
- Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)
Ruth Coppinger: We made the point at that stage - it must be remembered that people are being evicted from HAP tenancies - that €23 billion extra would be spent over a 30-year period paying private landlords through HAP when social housing could be built instead. That has been proven by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. The second family I know of are living in a bed and breakfast...