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- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 58:In page 38, after line 12, to insert the following: “PART 9 CHANGING SEXIST AND ANTI-LGBTQ ATTITUDES56.The Minister for Justice and Equality is to report on measures that could be taken by the State to combat sexist and anti-LGBTQ attitudes in society, including: a review of sex education in schools and colleges; classes on consent, respect for women and LGBTQ...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is within the scope available to the Minister. She is the Minister for Justice and Equality. We tabled the amendment because the Minister is bringing in a law aimed at tackling prostitution and the sex industry through criminalising the purchase of sex. However, the Minister is not taking other measures to attempt to reduce the demand for the purchase of sex. We believe it is within...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 59:In page 38, after line 12, to insert the following: “PART 9 VICTIMS’ RIGHTS56.The Minister for Justice and Equality is to report to the Dáil on progress in developing a Victims’ Rights’ Bill and on additional measures necessary to fully support and protect victims’ rights, including guaranteed access to free counselling services...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the United States' National Security Advisor. [6113/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America. [6114/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on discussions with a company (details supplied) on the delivery of Orkambi for the public health service. [5627/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 461. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 571 of 31 January 2017, if he will alter the general practitioner visit card scheme to allow certificate of fitness to drive assessments on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5995/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding Regulations (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the regulation of puppy farms; the steps his Department takes to protect the welfare of dogs in such farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6119/17]
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is in the newspapers.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that the larger parties in the Dáil are trying to unravel, on a very ad hocbasis, agreed Dáil reform that was argued and debated over a period of months. I do not mind listening to the issue of a second bite of the cherry, but what is happening is that, on an ad hocbasis, the larger parties are trying to get more and more speaking rights.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: For years smaller parties and Independents were squashed, and not one of the Deputies on the backbenches cared when members of smaller parties, who are elected on an equal basis to every single one of them, did not get a fair say in the Dáil.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The problem is that the two large parties are responsible for the health crisis and now their members will have more chances to speak on what they have caused for the past decade or so. The backbenchers generally have no interest in speaking in the Dáil, and it is quite amazing that they are now suddenly giving out.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy was not a backbencher at the time. He was a Minister of State.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Which one?
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: All of them.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: My heart is bleeding for them. Who is the Deputy? I have never heard him speak before.
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Five hundred workers and their families had to find out through the media, the television etc. that their jobs had been lost. These workers are from Kildare and west Dublin and many are from my constituency and other Dublin constituencies and around Leinster in general. What this brings centre stage again is the massive unique dependency of this country on American-owned foreign direct...
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister even make a pretence of trying to answer any of the questions we submit for the Topical Issue debate? She arrived with a prepared script and did not bother to respond to any of the questions put to her. I asked about the State grants that are still being provided. The situation is reminiscent of the line from the song "Ordinary Man", by the Kildare singer, Christy Moore,...
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: How much grant assistance did HP Inc. receive?
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister has 15 seconds left and she has not mentioned the grants.