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- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I was not querying the position regarding Paralympics Ireland but I drew a contrast between the amount of money allocated to Irish Open golf and the fact that the entire Women in Sport programme gets one fifth of that. I know it brings in tourists and I am not averse to golf because people like it, but there is massive prize money for this competition. Are we going to subsidise something...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I understand the fact that Sport Ireland makes the decisions but we are sitting here endorsing that decision by allocating the funds so we are entitled to question it.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I agree with supporting people trying to reach the Olympics and I know that separate grants are available that can benefit individual clubs but Women in Sport has been highlighted a lot this year and the women's hockey team was highly successful. The soccer team was probably more successful than the men's so the amount allocated to women's sport seems quite small. When officials are in...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I would just like to say that we are not talking about pitch and putt clubs. We are talking about giving €750,000 to one event at which the winner received prize money of $1.116 million - whatever that is in euro - and for which there is a $7 million total prize fund. We are not talking about helping people with their mental health. We are talking about subsidising very well paid...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: I am not happy but I will leave it at that.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Ruth Coppinger: No, it is fine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: We did last night.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (11 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 378. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with type 1 diabetes and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency will be provided with access to Creon under the long-term illness scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51999/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Office of Public Works Properties (11 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 590. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the sale of a building (details supplied) by public auction; the work done to ensure the preservation of this national monument; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51523/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the tendering of Bus Éireann routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52230/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I ask about the plans of the National Transport Authority, NTA, and by extension the Minister and this Government because I do not believe that there is any independence between them, to privatise public transport and I particularly ask about the impact on Bus Éireann workers and on commuters from the race to the bottom that is being pursued and the rigged system that seems to be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Let us talk about Go-Ahead, the company that, under the Minister's watch, has been allowed take over these routes. Go-Ahead starts its bus drivers on €28,000. How is one meant to buy a house in this city or any other city in this country on such a wage? The top rate of pay is €32,000. That is €14,000 less than a Bus Éireann worker could earn after a number of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister tweets about him positively.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Bus Éireann underbid Go-Ahead by €3 million but Go-Ahead was still given the contract, so it seems to be a rigged system. The NTA does not want Bus Éireann to be able to maintain its own routes. In reality, it is not allowed compete. What is happening is a fragmenting of the network. Bus Éireann is expected to show a profit despite all the challenges of the NTA...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tender Process (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: There is no socialist government in Greece.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Every homeless organisation has called for this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It does not say that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach is totally disingenuous.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach once made the very unexpected admission that he would nearly become a socialist when he saw the way drug companies profiteer. That was in response to a question I put on cystic fibrosis. It applies now in respect of pembrolizumab. What progress has been made since Vicky Phelan came in here with Áine Morgan and Tracey Brennan who are in their 30s and 40s and told Deputies...