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Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I can tell the Minister.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The O'Devaney Gardens site is valued at €14 million and it will contain a certain number of units, with developers allowed to build 584 such units. That is how I worked it out. I will speak about the Minister's new proposal for affordable rental units in the limited time I have. His document indicates that in rent pressure zones:Lands held by local authorities will be brought to...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: No, I do not. The Minister is demonising council housing.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Not when there is a housing crisis.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Such as?

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We will never be able to house all the people.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The councils need more money.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the accuracy and timeliness of the housing and homelessness statistics published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9037/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide for dedicated space for cycle lanes in cities and towns separate from bus lanes in view of the rise in cycling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9294/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 5. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 24 January 2017, when the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform will take place. [8460/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity was reborn last week and hit Tesco with a vengeance. When Tesco management announced its intention to cut workers' pay and rip up the contracts of people who had worked for it, for three decades in some cases, forcing them out on strike, it assumed it could isolate a small group of workers within the workforce but it seriously underestimated two things. The first is the workers...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (28 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the public support for the Apollo House occupation, he will support making all remaining suitable NAMA lands available for social and affordable housing and allocating NAMA’s cash reserves towards the provision of social and affordable housing. [2177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (28 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concentration in ownership of residential development land by vulture funds as a result of land sales by NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2180/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Assessments (28 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the local property tax, LPT, for a property (details supplied) in Dublin 15 was calculated for the years 2012 to 2017. [10283/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (28 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has withdrawn the HSE national lottery grants for 2017; and if so, if he will make alternative funding options available to the groups and organisations involved in the provision of health and personal social services that depend on such funding for the important services they provide. [10288/17]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: This day next week, 8 March, is International Women's Day. This year will be different because women all over the world will participate in co-ordinated actions against sexism and for reproductive rights. For the first time in history there has been a call for a global strike on International Women's Day. Participants are asked to strike, to either take a day off work or wear black, as I...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The woman does not want to be pregnant and is looking for access to an abortion. She is not entitled to do that in this country. I want to make that clear. That is her decision - not the Taoiseach's decision or the decision of any of the lads beside him. The Citizens' Assembly is proving itself to be a very conservative talking shop from which anybody with a view is eliminated and is not...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach was asked this question earlier but there has been a development since then. The confidence and supply agreement states that the Government will facilitate the passage of legislation for the implementation of the recommendations in regard to domestic water charges. Deputy Cowen from Fianna Fáil is out on the plinth saying that if the Government does not agree to implement...

Business of Dáil (1 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the proposal, but I suggest that rather than having Travellers' groups ringing our offices yesterday to ask us whether statements would take place and not knowing whether that would be the case, it would be better to announce these things in advance and make provision for the groups for which it means so much to come into the Dáil and be present in the Gallery rather than...

Business of Dáil (1 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: People rang our offices to ask-----