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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That is the Minister's opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is, it is a particular opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Was the issue of landbanks examined at the summit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We have no councillors in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a housing problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Government should build some houses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That is so, but the Minister has not done anything to prevent such situations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: There should be emergency legislation to stop evictions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the Chair. The Minister might think the meeting is getting a bit tetchy. This is the most significant crisis in the country. One would expect a full Press Gallery to be present when the Minister is present to answer to the housing committee. Unfortunately the issue blows hot and cold in the media. It is sexy for one or two weeks then it goes off the boil again. Some people here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I was not referring to that. There was a special housing and homeless committee that met last summer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That was not the impression. The Minister is extremely sensitive. I do not know who has been advising the Minister and the Taoiseach but perhaps they should do a few yoga lessons or something.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (3 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the planned demolition of the Palestinian villages of Khan al-Ahmer and Susiya in the occupied West Bank; if he will raise the matter with the Israeli authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (3 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the regulation of referendum spending in view of the advent of online advertising in which money can be spent from abroad to target particular groups of voters here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41524/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I also believe that this is a public Dáil committee. Therefore, if comments are made at this committee, people should be entitled, and have a responsibility, to comment. This links with the point that was made about the lack of sexual and reproductive health education in Ireland. Regarding the term "a baby's heart beats at 21 days", an embryo does not even have a four-chamber heart...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Professor Binchy posed his paper as if this is a question of Ireland versus Europe and the world at it holds onto its so-called protection of the unborn. Is this not a question of the pregnant individual's autonomy rather than the country's autonomy? Does Professor Binchy accept that if the aim of Ireland's abortion ban was to save so-called unborn lives, it is not doing a very good job?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I am very relieved as I have them all here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: With 13 women in Ireland a day having abortions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Does Professor Binchy call that a success, the abortion rate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Professor Binchy did not answer about injunctions against women. Did he stop favouring that recently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Professor Binchy said there was a strong case for it though.

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