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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry but it is rare to get a chance to ask the Taoiseach questions on such an important issue. Mr. David McWilliams who is not a card carrying member of any left wing or socialist party has said that the deposit rules were relaxed by the Central Bank in order for prices to rise which will coax builders who are sitting around waiting for such price rises into beginning to dig...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: If I had been aware of that and given a time limit, I would have stuck to it. Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle could have indicated that in advance.

Topical Issue Debate: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I, too, have been absolutely appalled by the media coverage and the commentary of certain people in the media in the last week in response to this report. I agree that the methods of assessment were defective. I agree with Deputy Daly on the policy of Judge Harding Clark of taking oral evidence and meeting only a handful of the women involved. If she had met more, she would have seen for...

Topical Issue Debate: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There has been an attempt by the Catholic right to seize on this highly flawed report to argue against the whole question of Catholic control of maternity hospitals. There is no question that this was done and motivated by a Catholic medical theology. It is also argued very patronisingly that these women did not know the difference between a caesarean section, a symphysiotomy or anything...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Funding (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 48. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she will implement to support professional female artists. [37375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on maintaining history as a core subject for the junior certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37592/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (29 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 523. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the fact there is no deferral period for sexually active gay and bisexual persons donating blood in a number of European Union states (details supplied) and there is a review of the deferral period in the United Kingdom, he will review the requirement for a 12 month deferral period here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37022/16]

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: People at home would be amazed at some of the goings on in this Chamber.

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: At a time when rents are increasing exorbitantly, and the figures have already been given, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in particular want us all to sit and wait for their private residential Bill that they have been discussing for a long time before we take any action. The Bill before the House has been asked for by community associations and trade unions and it has been signed by a...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is telling us it will not support rent certainty, despite it supporting the idea when it was represented on the housing committee. When it was let out into the wider sphere and its members are under the party whip, it is a different story. It is just beyond belief as we know the landlords have a major investment in this Dáil, with 20% to 25% of Deputies having that interest. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (30 Nov 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 48. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects recognition of Traveller ethnicity to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37957/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We have heard much about the need for this Bill to be progressed very quickly. Those of us who on the housing committee heard the Minister's arguments to speed up its passage or allow it to bypass pre-legislative scrutiny. People may have the impression that this is emergency legislation to resolve the housing crisis. I only wish it were so. The Bill has fallen way off the target of what...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will it have a kitchen?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (1 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his discussions with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation regarding pay restoration and recruitment and retention of nurses and midwives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37992/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (1 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 63. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to end the high infant mortality rate among children in the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33531/16]

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We have the housing report.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is clearly not working.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There is plenty of supply.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (6 Dec 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts made on accepting refugees from the Syrian conflict and from Calais, France; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38815/16]