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- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (10 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 341. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will restore the rent allowance paid to members of An Garda Síochána; if she will restore other allowances and payments paid to employees of her Department or agencies under her Department's remit that were cut or reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5714/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (10 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 346. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality , further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 28 January 2015, if she will consider employing extra staff for the purposes of reducing waiting times for the family reunification visa, as opposed to using existing staff in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5757/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Pyrite Remediation Programme: Pyrite Resolution Board (10 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Some of us are, unfortunately, experts in pyrite because we have been living with it for a number of years. During my 11 years as a councillor with Fingal County Council it was a major problem. Fingal is one of the areas worst affected. I welcome the establishment of the board. As stated by Senator Keane, all of the quarries responsible for this are still operating. To the best of my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Pyrite Remediation Programme: Pyrite Resolution Board (10 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Local authorities are moving on the issue, but there is a particular problem with the housing agencies. Most of the people living in these houses thought they were going to be local authority tenants but discovered that they were not. Is the board stating housing agencies can apply through the scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Pyrite Remediation Programme: Pyrite Resolution Board (10 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: That is helpful. I appreciate that the board has the information on its website. Believe it or not, however, there are many people who are still not educated about this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Pyrite Remediation Programme: Pyrite Resolution Board (10 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is fair enough for Deputies to ask how HomeBond got off so lightly when we know it must have more money. It has not paid out one penny to anybody who paid money to it. For example, I heard that €900 was paid for most of our houses. We have got nothing for this because HomeBond was not willing to engage with residents. It is a little like the Catholic Church compensation issue...
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: This is in relation to the criminal justice Bill.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the public sector recruitment embargo will be completely lifted; and if analysis has been done on the way the employment embargo is actually adding to budgetary costs and to delays in service provision in health, education and many other Departments. [5773/15]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: For four days in a row, there have been unprecedented Garda operations in west Tallaght. Dawn raids have taken place on 17 homes without any of the appointments made with the Anglo Irish Bank three who brought this country to financial ruin.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Ordinary men, women and, in legal terms, children have been arrested in front of their families and neighbours, including three elected representatives of the Anti-Austerity Alliance. How does it sit with the Tánaiste that complaints she made against people who protested her visit to Jobstown in November have resulted in these outrageous raids by entire squads of gardaí, trawling...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Is the Tánaiste comfortable that 14, 15, 16 and 17 year olds have been arrested? As we speak, a 15 year old is missing a day of school.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste claims she is concerned about education, but she has said nothing about the school that child is missing-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----because he or she might have taken part in a protest against the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The talk in Jobstown is that a message will be sent out soon for the first born in every family to be rounded up to please the Tánaiste. Is her wounded political vanity so precious that she needs this vindictive attempt to criminalise an entire working class community in this way? Hundreds of decent people in Jobstown and Tallaght who took part in a protest are in genuine fear that...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Why does the Tánaiste feel that she is so special? There are vulnerable women with barring orders who cannot get them enforced by gardaí, yet an entire unit in Tallaght has been doing nothing else for the past three months except investigating hours of video footage on the Tánaiste's behalf.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: For decades, Ministers and taoisigh have gone around this country and encountered hundreds of protests, had their cars impeded-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----and had verbal abuse shouted at them. I will cite two examples.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: In 2002, the then Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, visited Waterford. He claimed that his car was kicked and choice language was thrown at him. He complained in the Chamber. In 1989, Mr. Charles Haughey-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----had his car blocked by a sit-down protest of students-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----at UCD. For all their sins, neither went and called out the dogs and called on a repressive police response for the behaviour they faced.