Results 821-840 of 6,881 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse her decision to end the one-parent family payment to lone parents when their youngest child reaches seven years of age; if she will report on the work of her Department in preparation for this change; if there are higher payments expected to be paid in family income supplement as a result of the change in the one-parent family...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out an analysis of the rental market rates; if she will review the cap on rent supplement payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9551/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Certificates (5 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 24 February 2015, and in view of there being no registration fees to the Garda National Immigration Bureau for European Union, European Economic Area and Swiss nationals living here, her views that the application fee, and fee for the certificate of naturalisation, is a barrier to access to...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: As a non-member of the committee there are one or two things that I would like to raise, possibly with a view to---
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes, I will. There were many contributions on the last Stage in the House about fathers' rights and the alleged denial of access by women to fathers who have custody. There were many contributions by different Deputies about that. I think this section clarifies that a second parent can apply to the courts for enforcement and for custody. There seems to be a lot of confusion between...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Yesterday, the Taoiseach marked four years of this Fine Gael-Labour Party neoliberal Government. Today, that same agenda is creating huge uncertainty among Aer Lingus workers, their families and the communities who depend on Aer Lingus for employment and connectivity. This anxiety has been created by the Government refusing to reject decisively the bid by IAG to buy the Government's shares....
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: IAG needs Aer Lingus. That is the view of the Aer Lingus pilots and many others.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Aer Lingus has a jewel that other airlines want to get their hands on, namely, the Heathrow slots, which have been valued by Deloitte at €925 million but are invaluable to this country. Would the Taoiseach agree that the cast iron guarantee that the Government is seeking on connectivity is pathetic and would be non-existent after five years-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----as would be all of the jobs in airline catering, flight maintenance and many other areas? The brand itself would likely be integrated very quickly-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----as has been the pattern with other takeovers. I put it to the Taoiseach that selling off the remaining public stake in Aer Lingus would be economic and social treachery. Will the Government right the wrong that Fianna Fáil did ten years ago by privatising Aer Lingus in the first instance? Will it throw aside its ideological attachment to privatisation and not only refuse to sell...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: If the Government can invest taxpayers' money in the banks, surely it can invest taxpayers' money in a strategic asset such as Aer Lingus-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----which links us with the US and Europe.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The taxpayer spends billions in supporting the so-called enterprise and employment sector in this country. It appears to me from the Taoiseach's response that the Government is well disposed towards selling off the remaining public control of Aer Lingus. This means that very shortly thousands of jobs not only in north Dublin but in Cork, Limerick and the Shannon area will be jeopardised. ...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Taoiseach say why the Government is so ideologically opposed to maintaining its stake in Aer Lingus or re-nationalising it?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: So does Aer Lingus.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: So Aer Lingus is to be sold?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Which are?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on meetings he has had with Aer Lingus stake holders, regarding the sale of the State's shares in the airline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9973/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent bus route changes, carried out by Bus Éireann; and the way these will impact transport to and from rural areas. [9974/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Issues (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 300. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a company (details supplied) establishing a rule against the use of languages, other than English in its workplace, and making the non-use of the English language a disciplinary matter; and her further views that such policies have a negative impact on the participation of minority groups in the workplace. [9933/15]