Results 2,861-2,880 of 6,902 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 1232. To ask the Minister for Health the information available on the estimated annual cost of offering a full-range of reproductive services to women via the HSE free at the point of use, including contraception, abortion services and fertility treatments [25362/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 1233. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of restoring HSE medical, nursing, care and home help staff to 2008 levels. [25363/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 1234. To ask the Minister for Health the financial benefits that would accrue to the drinks industry from the introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25364/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (16 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 1389. To ask the Minister for Health if he has requested a report by the HSE and the relevant hospitals on a case that was recently reported in the media (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25914/16]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy O'Dowd was a Minister in the last Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It seems that we cannot get answers so I will make a suggestion. I ask Mr. Keohane to strongly urge Irish Water, which Ervia was charged with establishing from what I have read, to pull back and waste no further public money on a project that clearly does not have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----public support or the support a majority of Deputies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Excuse me, but the Chairman is here to chair the meeting and not to give the Government's opinion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am entitled to give an opinion of the majority of Deputies in the Dáil-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----who were elected on an anti-water charge platform. I ask the Chairman to allow me to put-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----a proposition to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Chairman has needlessly interrupted people and made the debate very difficult. It is absolutely clear that a majority of Deputies were elected on the basis of opposing water charges. Even if that were not the case, it is absolutely clear that the majority of people are not paying water charges. Tens of thousands of people were on the streets to protest on Saturday even though nothing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----famously by the Taoiseach in his response at an Irish Water briefing. It is legitimate to make the point that there is no accountability in terms of these organisations. It seems farcical and pointless that when people are brought in front of the committee we are limited in terms of what we can ask. The organisations are not accountable to the Dáil and that was the reason they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is my opinion but not his.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil has just come out and said it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----so it is the opinion of the majority in the Dáil now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I wish to raise three brief matters. I have no doubt that the Minister personally wishes to resolve the housing crisis. He has moved by bringing forward the action plan. My constant theme has been that its focus is wrong. The focus is on kickstarting the construction industry, but most of those houses will be private houses. The planning permissions the Minister is talking about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister should ask about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I will have to leave, so could I ask one more question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It relates to the figures. I tabled a parliamentary question and, of the 47,000 social houses referred to in the reply, 18,718 will be local authority new builds. That is only a little over 3,000 a year. I am rounding up the figures for the sake of speed. That is lower than the figure for 2008, before the crash. The impression is being given that there will be lots of social housing, but...