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

Ruth Coppinger: He is quoting James Connolly.

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

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister has some neck.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a detailed report on the Action Plan for Jobs 2014. [44356/14]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister provide a detailed report on the Action Plan for Jobs, where the jobs have been created and how funding for job creation is being provided?

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am still none the wiser as to exactly what sectors these jobs are in, but I have noted the vast bulk of the Department's budget of €755 million for 2014 consists of grants, subsidies and other incentives to corporations. It is what is known as corporate welfare, where the State uses taxes collected from workers, and savings through cuts to public spending, to give handouts and tax...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister of State in the Labour Party? I am not too sure any more.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It used to be Labour Party policy to use public investment to create jobs, either directly in public services or elsewhere, but now it seems to go along with the ideology of doling out vast sums of money to small and medium enterprises and multinationals to try to get them to create jobs. TASC economist, Paul Sweeney, described the level of corporate welfare in Ireland as a very considerable...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: They are not creating any; that is the problem.

Other Questions: Job Creation Targets (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Give us the figures now.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the proportion of his Department's budget used on financial support to businesses, including EGE grants, subsidies and any other forms of financial support, either directly or via agencies under his remit. [44355/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the work being done by her Department to find alternative course places for students affected by the closure of English language schools as a result of their courses no longer being approved by her Department. [43829/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I will start with the 1916 commemorations. I was not a Deputy at the time, but would the Minister agree that the centenary of 1913, for example, seemed to be virtually ignored by the State and the Government in terms of working-class history in this city? Will the role of James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army, for example, or the international context of 1916 be featured? The latter is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Is that for all of them? Will the Minister differentiate between people who are already very well off?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has met representatives of the locked out bricklayers and builders at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45362/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the number of secondary school places in Dublin 15; and her plans to create more places to resolve the shortage that students and their families are faced with. [45363/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the maximum 80% LTV for mortgage loans; the measures he will implement to assist prospective home owners that are unable to save an adequate amount in view of the rise in house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45601/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gender Balance (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the real social dynamics group and their attitudes towards women; and her views on the impact of such attitudes towards gender equality. [45582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority-owned homes vacant at present; and if he will provide in tabular form the figures by local authority area and the reasons for the vacancy. [45586/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the work under way to make vacant local authority-owned homes available for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45587/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the process of pyrite remediation is expected to commence in respect of a property (details supplied) in County Dublin. [45588/14]