Results 241-260 of 6,881 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The commission accepts the notion that a teenager uses way less water than an adult, when anyone knows that a teenager uses more water than most adults, and it has accepted the definition of a child. This makes it clear there is no free water or free allowance and the commission is perpetuating that myth that is out there. My second question concerns the price rate that has been given....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I ask a follow-up question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The question is in regard to cost per person. The figures given relate to the cost per head - they are per capita. Page 11 shows that the witnesses have come up with studies carried out in Dublin showing that a second person will use one third of the water a first person uses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It is here on page 11 - I refer to a study carried out by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: No, it is hugely important because people are being fleeced - what they will actually pay has been underestimated.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It is amazing what marches can do.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: No.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach raised the question of gender equality. I am the only woman present in the Chamber, but I have only ten seconds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach listed a significant number of issues on which there will be referendums, including, laughably, gender equality. However, the one issue he did not mention was a repeal of the eighth amendment. How can we have gender equality when a woman is equated to a foetus? Ireland is the only country in Europe where this happens. Do women's lives matter? Does their health matter?...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Some 56% of people believe the eighth amendment should be repealed in the lifetime of the Government. The Taoiseach is bringing people out to vote on a range of important issues, but none of these issues is more important than the issue of women's lives.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: We have seen victims of the eighth amendment this year, but when is the Taoiseach going to let people concentrate on a 31 year old amendment?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Why not?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It failed over the summer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It has failed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Four thousand women a year will still go.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: When will there be a debate on the water charges?
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It is unbelievable when the people-----
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The situation facing people in mortgage arrears and the housing crisis are the two burning issues that should have been addressed by this Government. Instead of this, however, the EU, the troika and the code of conduct on mortgage arrears put pressure on the banks to resolve mortgage arrears, which effectively means repossessing homes. I am seeing the effects of that policy in my own area...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the cuts to the respite care grant in the upcoming Finance Bill. [41685/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (4 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department plans to reverse the cuts in rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41684/14]