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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (6 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the assistance given to refugees from Syria here as part of resettlement and relocation programmes to access education and employment and to have professional qualifications recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5669/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (6 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed the funding of the CIÉ defined benefit pension scheme with the senior management of CIÉ. [5360/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport Eligibility (6 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public transport provision will be expanded to cater for the requirements of persons in a school (details supplied). [6036/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Agency (6 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the appointment of the chair of the Housing Agency will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5825/18]

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder if the Taoiseach listened to an interview on Monday on RedFM, a Cork radio station, with a woman called Sarah. In short, Sarah is a victim of rape who was refused morning-after contraception and ended up having to go to Britain for a late abortion at great expense and trauma. In the context of a debate about unrestricted access to abortion up to 12 weeks versus restrictions, I...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach said he will listen to the interview, but he might bring the Tánaiste to sit and listen to it with him. The first issue is that Sarah was not asked if she had allergies. She was asked about her sex life. That is the reality of it. The morning after pill is safer than paracetamol or Nurofen. One can go to the counter and get it without any...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We are interested actually.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The response of the Government to the Bill is shocking. In its presentation the Government said that in 32 years' time - a generation away - in the year 2050, Ireland might be able to reduce its emissions by 80%. This is not even true. In the past month, the Climate Change Advisory Council has stated that the Government will miss the 2020 targets. Professor John FitzGerald of that council...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting times for assessment for occupational therapy and speech and language therapy for children; the measures that will be taken to end waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6381/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 83. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the use of Mifepristone and Misoprostol for the termination of pregnancy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6380/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the income thresholds for the student universal support grant which will be reviewed to take into account the rising cost of living for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6550/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for breast check; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6642/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the frequency of breast check in all areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6643/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome this discussion today. This essentially boils down to the impact of EU fiscal rules on our housing crisis. We sat here a year and a half ago when the first thing the new Dáil did was to establish a housing and homelessness committee. I was happy with many things in the report. However, the fiscal rules are central to why we are not making progress on the housing crisis,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I mean it will be one-third of public housing. That is the shift. To clarify, Fingal County Council has given over all of its land and it is generally approved housing bodies rather than the council building them. It is council land that is being used so it is a shift and we should not pretend that it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is problematic. The council has agreed to develop 1,100 or 1,200 units on one site in Blanchardstown, at Damastown. Is that going to be divided up into eight housing bodies? That will be a nightmare. The representation issue is important because of tenants with pyrite who have not been able to get any communication from their housing body. I have raised this before but nothing has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We raised some of the same issues in today's earlier session with the approved housing bodies. My questions are directed more at the CSO and the Department, however. Can the CSO clarify for us that the approved housing bodies are being put onto the State balance sheet on the basis that they are almost exclusively financed by Government? Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: To me, the upping of housing provision under the approved housing bodies was a deliberate tactic to try to bypass the fiscal rules. It would seem that maybe the game is up on that now. I wanted to raise a number of issues with the Department about the EU fiscal rules. Some of these points came up in the special committee on housing and homelessness. Has there been any movement on them in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Mr. McCarthy does not agree with the former Minister for Finance, who told the housing committee that if it goes on the balance sheet, we break the fiscal rules.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry, and I will not interrupt Mr. McCarthy again, but just to clarify this point. Is he saying the Government could spend the money if it decided, for example, to introduce a wealth tax or something, to pay for house building? Could it do that? Could it decide to increase taxation of a sector to do that?