Results 2,421-2,440 of 6,901 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I think it is 1 million.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: May I ask a question about that?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very disheartening to hear local authority managers arguing against social housing on the scale that is needed. That is how it can be interpreted. I know some of the witnesses personally and have had dealings with them. I do not believe that is their belief, but it is as if they have absorbed this philosophy that is coming. Some 390,000 local authority houses were built in the last...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I raise another matter on which Mr. Brady may wish to comment. I live in a mixed-tenure estate. I do not know if other people do. There were 200 private, 400 affordable mortgage and 100 for local authority tenants. It works very well. I favour affordable mortgages because people have an issue with wanting to buy their houses. I think Mr. Brady or whoever is in Fingal now would back me...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What does Mr. Cummins mean by "worked in the past"?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is Mr. Cummins saying that the private sector not being involved is the problem, rather than the local authorities not being involved?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am just trying to clarify what Mr. Cummins is saying.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Sorry?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have never liked the fact that in the Dáil, the Government frequently blames local authorities for the lack of house building or the housing crisis. Ministers say that they have given local authorities the money and that the Taoiseach has told them to go and work away with that. However, I must say that I am very disappointed by what I have heard today. Basically, local authority...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Could Mr. Brady end the self accommodation thing, which is torture for people, if he had more staff? It is really difficult for people to source their own accommodation like that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I was not talking about Ms Nic Aongusa, but about the Ministers.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Now you know what it is like for us.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can the Taoiseach tell the House when the Minister for Education and Skills will introduce the Bill on school patronage that he spoke about? He must agree that the expectation and demand among a growing number of people is for equality in education, and one would have thought that the priority of the Minister would be to outlaw discrimination against children on the basis of their religion....
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am concluding, a Cheann Comhairle. Other schools will become more Catholic, but what we could see is schools not being available to those who have no faith. I ask the Taoiseach to reconsider going down this road and allow for the fact that there is now huge diversity in this country. He should move with the times.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It does not.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There is nothing against that in the Constitution.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: You allowed the Taoiseach say something completely wrong last week and he did not have to correct it.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is that the Taoiseach correcting the record?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the cost of accommodation for students; the steps he will take in the coming months for the 2016-17 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14746/16]