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- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Will it avert the corporation tax HP Inc. pays?
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a day for asking questions.
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Does the Minister know how much corporation tax the company has paid?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been denied preclearance to the United States in Dublin and Shannon Airports on grounds of their nationality since the President of the United States issued an executive order restricting travel of nationals of a number of Middle Eastern and African states. [6238/17]
- Commission of Investigation relating to disclosures by members of An Garda Síochána: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: There has been much focus on the rights of the Commissioner and why she should not have to step aside while this investigation takes place. Due process and in the interests of justice were terms used by the Minister earlier today. The reason for the decision to not ask the Commissioner to stand aside is that it would open up the whole appalling vista of the second Garda Commissioner in a...
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: We get the point.
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach did not answer the question on the need for him and his Ministers to make statements.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Staff (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It should also include au pairs.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on children of homeless parents being put into care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7030/17]
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is good to see the Minister for Social Protection sitting beside the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, today. I wonder why that is. I am sure the Minister will join with me in expressing solidarity with the women and men who are on strike at Tesco. They work to prevent their kids from falling into poverty. My question relates to the greatest fear that parents...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The inability to maintain stability and security is used as a euphemism for homelessness when taking the children of homeless parents into care. I am getting information that this is happening in three ways. Orders are being sought by social workers because children are often presenting as frequently ill due to the poor quality of emergency accommodation, lack of routine, bad food, etc. It...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister give a commitment that Tusla will start to collect this information? How can we know it is not a problem if we do not have the data? It is unbelievable that there are no records on homeless children in care yet Tusla has records on people who give important information to the State. I raise the issue of the Minister's credibility on this. She gave a commitment to the...
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry a Leas-Cheann Comhairle but we have not yet received the statement of the Taoiseach. Could the rest of us have a chance to read the statements before the questions begin? We have only received one of the statements.
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Acting Chairman lighten up a little bit?
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: With regard to the wording the Minister, Deputy Zappone, used, she stated: "I told him I had met the McCabes, that we had discussed false allegations ... made against Sergeant McCabe to Tusla". She then stated: "The Taoiseach said that this would be covered by the commission of investigation". That is what she has said and it is written in black and white. Is that accurate?
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Did the Taoiseach tell the Minister, Deputy Zappone, that the Tusla issue would be included in the terms of reference of the commission of investigation because she says in her statement that he did? She went on to State: "During the Cabinet meeting it was my belief that Tusla would be covered by the inquiry under the terms of reference before us". She said that because the Taoiseach told...
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Did the Taoiseach tell her, or not, that it would be covered in the terms of reference because the Minister says he did?
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Is the Taoiseach saying that the Minister, Deputy Zappone, is telling a lie in black and white in her script tonight-----
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: She said that the Taoiseach assured her it would be in the terms of reference and he is saying he did not.
- Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes, the Taoiseach said that.