Results 1,521-1,540 of 6,881 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Rather than talking about the legislation, we are rerunning the referendum.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I do not know what we would do if we did not have the Rural Independent Group Deputies and other Deputies to give us this amazing information. Women, it seems, do not know that the Internet exists where they can get all this information themselves without us passing it into law. I thank the Deputies for insisting that this be put into the law. While the Deputies were speaking, I took...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Is somebody on their phone?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: No, not on this area. I will on the next heading.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: We should take all elements under subhead B together.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask the Minister a question on the same topic. A total of €3 million is being allocated for working capital relating to the bus market opening programme. It arises from the gross cost contract arrangement that will go ahead in Bus Éireann for routes that have been opened to competition. In this case the National Transport Authority, NTA, will collect all fare revenues...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: Can the Minister explain the events involving the cashflow issue while------
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: It is on the same topic.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I will wait patiently. It is on the same issue.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: If that is the case,why would a private company want them?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: We are just asking questions on the issue.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I did so because the Chair is intervening unnecessarily.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I will let the Minister conclude his point.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I will wait for the Minister to conclude.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: This is obviously an area of interest for all of us. We need to interrogate this further. None of us here has to hand the figures of the routes being spoken of and we cannot really get into this. We need to get those figures. We need to have the NTA in and have the union representatives in. The Minister claims that these are not profitable routes. My understanding is that those buses...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: Yes. We need to get the figures first. The point being made is that a cost-benefit analysis was not done in this regard before deciding to put them out to tender. We need to interrogate the claim that it will benefit consumers. Is the Minister saying the prices will go down? Generally, what happens is that routes that are not so well populated lose out and that is not of benefit to the...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: To whom is it going?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: Is it going to the NTA?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: At a future meeting, we need to have the figures in front of us and question the NTA.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: We would like to know exactly where the €3 million will go.