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Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: If they have been here before-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: -----they would have heard these arguments. Members opposite obviously do not know how to conduct a debate. The claim there is an ideological aversion to privatising the water system is absolutely ludicrous. There are many Deputies who I could list who would like to see water services privatised as they have supported every other privatisation.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The only reason they do not propose it, is they cannot-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is hilarious that some of the Deputies opposite are in the Chair on many an occasion but they do not afford the rest of us any respect.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister clarify when the last plebiscite in Ireland was? Or did he just come up with this idea of late?

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very obvious that the troika has twisted the Government’s arms for the past six years-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It could easily twist the arm of another Government. That would mean a plebiscite would be gone out the window. A constitutional referendum would be the best safeguard but the Government has set its heart and face against conceding one. That is what most of the people want. It is another mistake the Government is making. However, I am confident that in April there will be mass...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: We are supposed to be discussing------

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to tell the Ministers to stop barracking speakers.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: They have been doing it continually.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Apparently they are hear to listen.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: They do not.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: That is very backward. Welcome to the 21st century.

Opposing Domestic Violence: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Christmas should be a happy time for families and everybody, but unfortunately it is a time when violence against women flares up in a dramatic way. It is a time when, according to Women's Aid, fear, intimidation, casual cruelty, sudden flashes of violence, threats to the well-being of children and the use of children as pawns to control and intimidate are rife. Unfortunately, this is what...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is the first chance the Dáil has had to discuss the horrific case of a clinically dead pregnant woman kept alive for 23 days in December against her family's wishes. I wish to convey the sympathies of the Anti-Austerity Alliance to her family who had to endure the tragic loss of their young daughter and then watch the indignities that were heaped upon her. They were forced into...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Taoiseach willing to allow the Irish people the chance to remove a law which is the envy of religious fundamentalists around the world? Was he strutting and posing for liberty in Paris while maintaining women as vessels and incubators at home, alive or dead? Will the Taoiseach hold a raft of referendums in May while refusing to allow people to have their say on the eighth amendment?...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Taoiseach hold a referendum in May, alongside those on marriage equality and other questions, and lift the shackles from doctors and women?

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I agree with the Taoiseach that the Constitution is in place. I am asking him to allow people to change it by holding a referendum, enabling them to overturn a decision that was taken 31 years ago at the behest of a Catholic lobby and nobody else. He said the eighth amendment did not prevent the life support from being turned off, but it is the reason doctors were fearful in the first...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and misogynistic that there is no way any religious fundamentalist would seek to have it put in place. My key point is that the Taoiseach will have the chance to resolve this issue in May. There is no impediment to the holding of a referendum on this in line with the referendums on marriage equality and other issues. Will the Taoiseach give time for this to be discussed in the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Nothing. Take it out.