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- Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 377. To ask the Minister for Health if funding to a care centre (details supplied) will be increased in order that services can be expanded to support those with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41216/18]
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. This legislation is historic. I refer to the millions of women who live in countries where abortion is illegal and unsafe. Obviously, it is still illegal in Ireland. One in eight deaths of pregnant women worldwide are related to unsafe abortion. Banning abortion never stops it. I particularly send my solidarity to our siblings in...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (4 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meetings with Northern Ireland political leaders. [28834/18]
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Prices are rocketing.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Does Deputy Maria Bailey expect us to sit here like absolute dummies? This is a serious issue.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister could have answered some of the questions we had posed instead of ignoring them.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: That is great.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: We gave the Minister of State four plans.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Ten thousand people are on the homeless list.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It costs twice as much as building a house.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Stop evictions.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Who is doing that?
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: That would be disastrous.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, it is usually the Minister's party.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: They have already divided the people.
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Two hundred years ago a preposterous notion was challenged - the divine right of kings. Today an equally preposterous notion has to be challenged - the divine right of private property. We live in a state where 10,000 people are officially homeless and 250,000 workers and young people face housing unaffordability. While there is ample land and resources available to resolve the crisis, the...
- Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the keeping of animals solely or primarily for slaughter for the value of their fur and to make related amendments to the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013. This Bill gives the Dáil the opportunity to ban the cruel and unethical practice of fur farming in Ireland. It is a Bill that has the active support of...
- Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I have become so used to this kind of thing that I did not bother raising it.