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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I asked about social welfare cuts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not know if the Tánaiste has read the report, Women, Austerity and Inequality, by Ursula Barry and Pauline Conroy, commissioned by the National Women’s Council of Ireland and TASC. I do not know what figures the Tánaiste is plucking out of the air but I will outline for her a few conclusions from this report. It concluded that equality was cast aside as a marginal...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste took away €10 the previous year.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This Sunday, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. Is the Tánaiste in any way embarrassed that, after four years of her Government’s tenure, not only has she not lifted a finger in key areas of women's rights crying out for vindication, but now her austerity policies are causing immense suffering for women on low and middle incomes, especially for women dependent on...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste's rent allowance cuts are making hundreds of women homeless each week. Last year, on International Women’s Day, she made a speech saying we need more women leaders in all areas of life and that far too few women are in the room when crucial decisions are made. Why, when the Tánaiste is in the room and as the most powerful woman in politics in this country, are...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I know where I will be spending International Women’s Day. I will be at a rally at the Spire organised by the ROSA group, Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity and Real-Productive Health. Where will the Tánaiste be? Two years ago, she spent International Women’s Day with Christine Lagarde, the well-heeled head of the IMF, which has plunged...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Tánaiste agree it is a far cry from the Labour movement tradition which started International Women’s Day? It was begun by garment workers in 1909 in the US-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and carried on by German socialists. Will the Tánaiste celebrate International Women’s Day by calling off her economic war on women?

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will she hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, so badly needed by women?

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Christine Lagarde.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The ESRI report the Tánaiste quotes did not refer to social welfare cuts at all.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It was not a study of them and did not actually conclude that there was no impact on women. In fact, it concluded that there was an impact on women who were in a relationship. The study to which I would like to refer the Tánaiste - and I am sure she is not contradicting it as it is well known - is by the National Women's Council. It concluded that equality had been cast aside during...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am on a worker's wage and the Deputy is not. Regarding the eight amendment, can the Tánaiste please respond to me? In the past, people would have expected that the Labour Party, at least on social issues if nothing else, would garner something from a coalition of popular government.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Why will the Tánaiste not hold a referendum this year and not at some stage in the future? We all know Labour will not be in the next Government so it is a useless promise. Do it now and give women the rights they deserve.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Do it now.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste is after cutting grants to carers.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Rates (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has done an analysis of the impact of the reductions in child benefit on poverty and deprivation levels; if she will fully reverse cuts in child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9372/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has made an analysis of the impact of the cut in the respite care grant payment on its recipients; if she will reverse the cut made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9370/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the extension of the Threshold tenancy protection service to County Cork; her plans to extend this service to other areas in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9369/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will remove any penalties to social welfare recipients due to non-participation in labour activation schemes, in view of the National Youth Council of Ireland's report (details supplied), which found that of the 13.3% of respondents who felt compelled to participate in JobBridge 100% were dissatisfied with their experience; and if...