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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (8 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reverse the budget reductions and changes to the rules related to the housing adaption scheme. [38480/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: There has been a good deal of sanctimonious talk from the Government about health, but there is no ring-fencing of this money to take real measures to assist people to stop smoking or to reduce smoking in any way, shape or form. This is a revenue raising exercise. In the Budget Statement the Minister said: "The measures I have announced today will cost an estimated €585 million next...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: While I support this measure, it is paltry. So too are two other major housing measures introduced by the Government. The first is the 20% deposit requirement for banks, about which many people are up in arms, and the second are the budgetary measures taken today. It is a pity the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection has left the Chamber because I wanted to discuss three...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: What is it?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: How can he say that after this budget?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: They do not. They have done nothing.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: They have not delivered anything.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the increase in annual fees nurses are required to pay to An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais to remain registered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38878/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 155. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recommendations of the new Royal College of Physicians of Ireland policy statement on obesity here; the measures he will implement on the matter of obesity (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38879/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the full recognition of the State of Palestine; and the steps he will take on this matter following the recognition of the State of Palestine by the Kingdom of Sweden. [38881/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Childhood Obesity (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the recommendations for actions in the education system contained in the new Royal College of Physicians of Ireland policy statement on obesity here; the measures she will implement on the matter of obesity (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38880/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 302. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for a change in electoral law to allow persons resident in the State that are not citizens or United Kingdom citizens a right to vote in elections to Dáil Éireann; his views on such a change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38877/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 366. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the appointment of a person (details supplied) to the board of the Irish Aviation Authority; and the qualifications and other credentials of the nominee. [38888/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very difficult to know where to start with such a widespread budget. It can be summed up, however, as a transfer, again, of wealth to the rich and to the highest paid in society with little or nothing given to those most savagely hit by austerity over the past six years. There are many examples of this in the budget. In the Government’s information booklet on the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The groups most savagely and disproportionately hit by austerity are the low paid, women - who tend to be in the former category - and single parents. None of them has been compensated by yesterday’s budget. None of the cuts made by the Government in rent allowance over the past three years has been reversed. I will take the example of a family in Dublin renting and who are on a...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: We should be.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have lost or had a deduction of their social welfare allowance because they refused to engage with labour activation schemes. [39863/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a reversal of the reductions in rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39862/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: And no lower as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I have a lot of questions, but I will begin by asking why the CER accepted the low usage figures provided by Irish Water. A comprehensive study of water usage was commissioned by Dublin City Council and carried out by Veolia Water UK and RPS in 2008 - I assume the CER accepts that the source for the study is reliable. The study found that average usage in 2007 for an individual was 148...