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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has liaised with the housing agencies responsible for the implementation of the pyrite remediation process regarding their progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11329/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 57. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department has taken to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius, as agreed at the 2015 United Nations Paris climate change conference. [11330/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the report on the findings of the 2015-2016 national audit of guidance counselling practice in second level schools and colleges of further education; if he will reverse the cuts made to the allocation of guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11189/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 442. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the location of the National Children's Hospital at the St. James's Hospital site; if he will review the decision and the decision-making process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11382/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 494. To ask the Minister for Health to recruit extra staff and provide extra resources for the national ambulance service; his views on the recommendations made in the national ambulance service capacity review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11726/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome Mr. Jordan's comments about the kind of legislation and changes that are needed to protect people in the private rental sector. I am going to confine my remarks to the private rental sector rather than modular housing, which has nothing to do with Threshold. The majority of social housing units, as it says on page 8 of Threshold's submission, is going to be sourced in the private...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: They do that because they want to increase the rent.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask about the rent supplement and top-up payments and supports the Department gives. When representatives of Threshold appeared before the committee earlier today, we were told that rent supplement had remained at 2013 levels, but it had been cut by 28% prior to then. In two years rents in Dublin West have risen by €341 per month. Therefore, in my area rent supplement lags...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Department is still hundreds of euro behind what is the going rate. I do not agree with having to do this but I wish to point that out. The only effect is that landlords will not take people. We know a law was passed but landlords vet people when they get in the queue and ask them if they are on rent supplement. All that happens is that landlords will not take people on rent...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Does that apply to food?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Does Ms Tighe accept that people who are homeless or living in a hotel pay a lot more for food?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: If one cannot cook one has to eat out all the time.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: That would be because there is no payment for it.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: How many?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Ms. Faughnan might check that figure and forward it to us.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask, first, about accommodation standards; second, about the "populist left wing agendas" that the delegation highlighted; third, about the number of landlords; and, fourth, about taxes on profits. I will start with the great standards that the IPOA believes its members are maintaining in the private rental sector. Last year, Threshold received 1,836 queries relating to...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The IPOA is represented in the Dáil at a level five times greater than is the case with the population. In the UK, the number of landlords - 2% of the population - is approximately half that which obtains here. We are expected to believe that it is dreadful if the number of private landlords in Ireland does not increase, but the opposite is the case and we have too many private...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy did not have to assure us of that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Sherry FitzGerald? That is just an oxymoron.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: If that is the case, why are the numbers going up?