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Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I ask Deputy Fitzgerald as Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on any investigations she or her Department have carried out into direct provision centres and the conditions in them, particularly in light of the fact that residents at a number of centres have had to engage in protests to highlight their plight. What action is the Minister taking on this scandal?

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: While I welcome any measure that will ameliorate the misery and suffering of people living in direct provision centres, does the Minister not agree it is time to close down these hell holes in which adults must live on €19 per week and children on €9.60 per week? There is no way to improve the experience of the residents of direct provision centres. We must recognise that...

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister stated that, unlike other countries, Ireland does not detain asylum seekers. How does one describe a system in which people are not allowed to work or to have visitors and must eat and be at home at set times other than as a form of detention? The Minister has said people are provided with accommodation and care. What would she call the treatment of a pregnant asylum seeker...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Did the Taoiseach report it?

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is to be spent over four years up to 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when Ireland will sign up to the Istanbul Convention on violence against women; and the measures required to adhere to this. [43828/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to vindicate the right to travel abroad to obtain an abortion enshrined in article 40.3.3 of the Constitution in view of news that Miss Y travelled to the UK seeking an abortion but was turned away because of her immigration status; and if she will report on changes that her Department is seeking to make in view...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (18 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 349. To ask the Minister for Health in order to honour Ireland's human rights obligations not to interfere with the right to obtain the highest possible standard of health, his views that the appropriate changes be made to the law to allow Mifepristone and Misoprostol to be available here for use in safe, early abortions. [43955/14]

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach has not heard what people said. They said they would not pay anything.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sure they will. They normally do.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It was a sit-down protest.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes. There are people sleeping in their cars every night and the Deputy did nothing about it.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Tell the people of Tallaght-----

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder whether the Cabinet has been watching reruns of "Only Fools and Horses". Today's attempt to sell dodgy goods at a discount is reminiscent of Trotter's Independent Trading. I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy Paudie Coffey, is familiar with the series. In the Christmas episode in 1992 Del Boy convinced Rodney that they would put tap water into bottles and sell them as "Peckham...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The shouter is back. I am glad to see him taking an interest. Full-cost recovery is written into the memorandum that was agreed between the troika and Fianna Fáil in government. That is the overall aim down the line. I am not sure how the paymasters in the troika and the European Union will take to what the Government has done today, given that it has not provided enough food to...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Yet the conservation argument has gone out the window, or fallen off the back of Rodney's truck. Does the Government intend to store the water meters along with the e-voting machines? What is the point in anybody accepting a water meter when it will not be needed for four years? Why would a person do that? The question now is whether this trickery will work. Will the discounted goods be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (19 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department has taken to resolve the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently out of work due to the Health Service Executive's decision to withdraw their indemnity cover. [44483/14]

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: What would the Labour Party have?