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- Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I thought this debate was going on until 12 noon and that the Minister might respond.
- Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It was commented on last week that we could not get a quorum to start this debate. It is very disappointing that people have slots that they did not bother filling on such a topic.
- Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The people who asked for an extension of the debate are not here.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: What is he doing?
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: That is an absolute joke.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I certainly would not have thought that the Government would have the effrontery to think that the Topical Issue debate was an appropriate place to deal with the biggest scandal that has emerged in recent days. The public is outraged. We are talking about a million breathalyser tests being lied about and people paying the price in terms of extra penalty points, wage deductions, etc. The...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Could we not just agree the Order of Business while we are here?
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: If I may make a suggestion; I do not know why we cannot agree. If we are agreeing the Order of Business to be discussed today, and we have the agenda in front of us, we have made a proposal that Government business would become the space in which the Minister would answer questions. I do not see any other way it could be done.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Matters have moved on since the the Business Committee met and the Minister of State, Deputy Regina Doherty, did has not taken that fact into account. That is the point.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Because we might have to scrap them, that is why.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with religious leaders. [13920/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of the Catholic orders and the redress scheme. The whole question of how these institutions were run and so on is now a major issue. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Catholic religious congregations have only paid 13% of the costs of a redress scheme set up to help survivors. The report states that by the end of 2015, the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: -----in Cumann na nGaedheal were in competition with Fianna Fáil: "I will raise you a Censorship of Publications Act" and "I will bid you a Juries Act to top it off." It was a competition between the lads to see who was the most holy and who would give the church the most power.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Why are they being awarded schools and hospitals?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Why were they awarded the Castleknock secondary school then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for referendums on constitutional amendments; and the issues that may be dealt with. [15211/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Of all the referendums in all the world, the one the Taoiseach announced on the flight to the United States was rather funny. The Constitutional Convention recommended that the voting age be reduced to 16 years of age and that economic social and cultural rights be enshrined in the Constitution. I would have thought the removal of the reference to the role of women was somewhat more...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Could we have just one more minute, between myself and Deputy Ó Snodaigh, for a supplementary?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It was. It has been in existence for years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The are using European-----