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Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Dream on.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the take-over bid by IAG for Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4362/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether a sale of Aer Lingus will have an impact on employment, pensions, aviation services and tourism. [4363/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a change in regulations to the way bank charges will be applied on accounts with low balances; where the charging of fees greatly reduces the balance or brings the balance to zero; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4588/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Flag (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he approved the lowering of the national flag over his Department's building on Kildare Street, Dublin 2 on 23 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4568/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have availed of terminations under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013; the number of women who have been refused; his views on the follow-up care for women who have been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4590/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: National Flag (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 499. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he approved the lowering of the national flag over his Department's building on Saint Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 on 23 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4569/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (3 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has estimated the level of non-payment of water charges that would result in expenditure in Irish Water being deemed not to be an off balance sheet expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4479/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (4 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance her views on ending the artist tax exemption for artists who are already in receipt of large incomes and funding. [46868/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the extension of the artist tax exemption to non-resident artists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47011/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to transfer single parents who are carers from receipt of the full one-parent family payment and half carer's allowance to full carer's allowance once their youngest children reach the age of seven years. [4966/15]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Tánaiste reverse the cuts for single parents whose children are over seven years of age or acknowledge that the promise she made in 2012 to introduce such measures only if Scandinavian-style child care services were available has been broken? Will she acknowledge that the cuts will increase poverty among lone parents, 63% of whom are living in deprivation? Does she believe...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I watched it.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Tánaiste agree that this cut is one of a list of many, that it is now part of a pattern of broken promises to women, in particular, who make up the majority of single parents? She has slashed child benefit, rent supplement and now she is forcing parents with children over seven onto jobseeker's allowance. It will mean cuts of €57 to €86 a week for people who do...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----not to have any choice about being able to bring up children in lone parent situations.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Tánaiste ever wonder why she got the reception she did in Jobstown? Does she ever wonder why people sat in front of her car? The reason they did so is that it is one of the most deprived areas of the country and she is seen by people as the Marie Antoinette of this Government.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The one difference between her and Marie Antoinette is that Marie Antoinette did not make any promises. She was not elected on a platform of not cutting child benefit and of being in favour of women's rights. The Tánaiste has broken every single promise to families in this country.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: In particular, she has stuck the knife into the backs of lone parents with this cut. Then she wonders why people around the country are angry and are not throwing red carpets under her feet. She has reduced people to going to soup kitchens. The biggest single group going to soup kitchens is single parents.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Would the Tánaiste accept that all this is being done in the interest of making cuts to meet targets set by the troika, the EU, the IMF and the ECB in aid of the bondholders? That is why she is getting the reception she is getting in communities. She can expect much more of it if she keeps this up.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: He was not. People do not like the Tánaiste.