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- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There is no documentation.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: So it is still a mystery.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: We want to know as well.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: So our taxes always paid for it-----
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Our taxes pay for it.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Get Apple to pay its taxes. That would help.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 38. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting times for autistic children seeking access to therapies in Beechpark Service in the Dublin North-West Health Service Executive area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8533/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 39. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the treatment of a person (details supplied) who requires access to speech therapies. [8534/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assessments she has conducted on the school transport needs of homeless children who are living in emergency accommodation away from where they originally lived and who are enrolled in school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8585/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will put in place to cater for the specific needs of homeless children in the education system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8586/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of homeless children in primary level education and in second level education. [8587/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why she applied a negative re-evaluation of deferred defined pensions; if she has assessed the impact this will have on pensions paid to deferred defined benefit pensioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8709/16]
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: My first point is that the Minister is not to blame for the housing crisis, although there is sometimes a tendency for him to get very defensive. However, he is answerable for the last number of years-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----when his party was in power and he has been in this Ministry. My first question is why the local authority housing targets are so low in the first place. The Social Housing Strategy 2020 has a target of 35,000 new units from 2015 to 2020, but only 11,200 are to be new social housing units to be built or acquired by councils or housing associations. If that is broken down, given there...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: On the situation in Tyrrelstown, which the Minister mentioned and I thank him for agreeing to meet those concerned, will he ask local authorities to enact a measure to provide that if the council acquires homes that people are already renting, it cannot start to evict those people? A new scheme must be developed to allow people to purchase those houses, which they would be well able to...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I ask a final question?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It concerns the investment strike of capital among private developers. The chief executive officer of NAMA referred to developers not being happy with a profit of €20,000 to €40,000 on a house that they might build in Dublin. Relying on the private sector to resolve the housing crisis will not work and the Minister has said that developers are hoarding land. Will he accept...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The situation could not get any worse, in fairness.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Oh, it will be signed on Tuesday?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: That is fine.