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Topical Issue Debate: Sports Funding (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister of State going to personalise the Topical Issue debate?

Topical Issue Debate: Sports Funding (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State is personalising it.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has completed its examination of new off balance sheet funding mechanisms in view of the failure to find any under the scheme announced in budget 2015; his views on the delay caused to the building of new social housing as a result; and if the funds allocated will now be immediately invested in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the numerical breakdown of the various methods local authority housing, rapid builds, family hubs, HAP and so on that he proposes to move the more than 800 homeless persons currently in private emergency accommodation out of hotels and bed and breakfasts by the end of June 2017; his plans for all the persons that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Student Accommodation (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the affordability of purpose-built student accommodation already available or under construction in Dublin; his plans to extend protections available for tenants under the Residential Tenancies Acts to student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17102/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: European Parliament Elections (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will bring forward an amendment to the Electoral Act 1992 to allow United Kingdom nationals resident here maintain their right to vote in European Parliament elections following the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17307/17]

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It certainly was our understanding that the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services would issue its findings today and that there would be two sessions scheduled for the debate on water. That was the understanding last week, not 80 minutes of statements. The concept of statements is becoming quite comical to the public. We continually make statements rather than...

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil did the same.

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I understand that my colleague raised on the Business Committee the prospect of a debate on the Bus Éireann situation. Will the Ceann Comhairle give an assurance that such a motion could be tabled between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on Thursday? I raise this issue because at that point workers will at have been on strike for more than 20 days. This is the equivalent of four week's pay for...

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

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Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The reason we should debate it is the 2,600 workers who depend for their livelihood on Bus Éireann. There is talk of redundancies and reducing the composite pay of the workers by a dramatic amount. We have not had a proper debate on this in the Dáil. We have had Topical Issue debate with Deputies speaking for one minute, but this is obviously the key industrial dispute of our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of permanent contracts in SOLAS and FÁS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17753/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to cases of workers that have been employed for over eight years by SOLAS through agencies to fill the same post and that are unable to seek permanency in view of the fact they are considered contract workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17754/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: UN Committees (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will implement the recommendations of the United Nations committee on the elimination of discrimination against women (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17873/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 409. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the welfare of a person (details supplied) currently detained in Egypt in view of renewed concerns for their health and well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that employees of the State posted abroad as part of their duties are not disadvantaged by the health insurance lifetime community rating scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17937/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (11 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 630. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the removal of ex officio positions for the Roman Catholic Church in the governing bodies of the National Maternity Hospital; if he will seek a change in the hospital's charter relating to the composition of the governing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18262/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (12 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the European Union Foreign Affairs Council on 3 April 2016; the steps he intends to take to support Iraqi and Syrian nationals impacted by the conflict to come here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (12 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Rome and the opening of the embassy to the Holy See; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18304/17]