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- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that it takes a special-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that it takes-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that it takes a very special deputy Prime Minister for the Labour Party-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----to get this-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I will finish as soon as I get a chance.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: This is my question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Why has it taken a very special deputy Prime Minister for the Labour Party to call for such a repressive police response? Larkin and Connolly will be turning in their graves.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: There are two reasons for this happening. First, working class people have deigned to protest against austerity Ministers who visit their communities.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste would like them to get back in their boxes.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The second reason is that she wants to take on-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----the largest protest movement taking place in this country, namely, the anti-water charges movement-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----at a particular time when bills are being prepared for delivery to 2 million homes. Will the Tánaiste call on the Garda-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----to stop making these arrests?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Just answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Answer the question on why 15 and 16 year olds have been arrested.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste made a pathetic attempt relating to my using a figure of speech to avoid answering any of the questions.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Despite her claims about the Garda being independent, is the Tánaiste happy with approximately 100 gardaí calling to people's homes, accounting for 300 man hours this week alone, 280 hours of video footage and the incident unit in Tallaght and she has no control over it? Is she happy that teenagers are missing school? Is she happy that mothers are afraid that they will be rounded...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: For the Tánaiste's information, there is one TD in this House who was very badly manhandled on that protest, Deputy Paul Murphy. Would the Tánaiste express her sympathy with him? That is shown on some of the video footage as well. On Tuesday, the Tánaiste grievously betrayed women suffering the trauma of fatal foetal abnormality by her stance.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Today, she brazenly comes in here and continues to stand over the hounding of an entire working class community. These actions will definitely backfire. People will boycott the water charges, which is essentially what this is about. The Tánaiste is trying to demonise protestors at a key time in the battle against water charges, but this will rebound. I have no doubt that the...