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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 823. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 199 and 200 of 4 March 2014, the consultations held with the organisations in receipt of bridging funding in the Scheme to Support National Organisations; when he expects the process to be concluded and a decision made on the funding of these organisations; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 824. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has met the Disability Federation of Ireland in relation to extending the funding of its organisations under the Scheme to Support National Organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14857/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Rates (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 758. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.599 of 24 February 2015, if his Department regularly reviews the cost of administration of the motor taxation system for those taxing vehicles for periods of less than one year. [13925/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 759. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a system of direct debit or standing order payments for motor taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13926/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Test Regulations (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 883. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons taking driving tests in 2014 who had language interpretation assistance during the test; the number in each test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14687/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Test Regulations (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 884. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that have applied for their driving licence, using an Irish language application form, from the start of the National Driver Licence Service taking over the service to date, broken down by calendar year; and the county areas where these applications came from. [14688/15]

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the number of seizures of mifepristone and misoprostol, which had been ordered online by women, placing Ireland in the position of banning access to their bodily autonomy and forcing them to go abroad (details supplied). [14707/15]

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Government reconsider its policy on mifepristone and misoprostol which are safe pills that can be used in cases of medical abortion? I am asking this because the Customs service is seizing these drugs which have been ordered by women online through Women On Web and prescribed by doctors. In years to come, we will cringe and look back on this policy, under which we are censoring and...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Because of the position under the eighth amendment and so on, the Government has banned these pills from the country. Who are the women who are looking for them? They are our sisters, cousins, friends and neighbours. They are ordinary women who have been driven to desperation because of a crisis pregnancy. If the Government is banning abortion in this country, will the Minister of State...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I have looked at the issue in depth because women contact me regularly about it. I remind the Minister of State that those who have to resort to this measure are the poorest women: illegal immigrants and those who cannot afford to shell out €1,000 or €1,500 to travel abroad for a surgical abortion. I also reassure the Minster of State that the doctors who prescribe these pills...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Dr. Bressan makes the point that in the not-too-distant future we will look back on the shameful bans on contraception, divorce, homosexuality and movies such as "The Life of Brian". Will the Minister of State at least ask the Customs service to stop preventing people from ordering packages online? Why is she perpetuating this disgraceful ban? She will have a third chance to repeal the...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Not 31 years ago.

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Constitution - no, I do not.

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 9. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his views on whether the recruitment embargo and the reliance on staff on temporary contracts was a major factor in the overcrowding crisis in hospitals last winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14708/15]

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am keen to ask the Minister about the impact of the public sector recruitment embargo on the health service. Information is growing that this is leading to a major sucking of resources and costs in terms of agency staff. Moreover, it appears the ban on recruitment has led to serious shortages of staff and has led directly to the bed and trolley crisis as well, because hospitals have been...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There may have been increases in recent months but staff have been gutted from the health service for six years. There has been a 10% reduction in that time. There is a relationship between the trolley and bed crisis and the embargo and downsizing in general of our health service in recent years or since 2009. It got worse in 2014 under the watch of this Government. Some 77,091 people...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Instead he is forcing them to go through a bureaucratic rigmarole. This has led to Connolly Memorial Hospital, in the Minister's constituency, having the highest number on trolleys in the State and the relevant HSE area on four occasions this week.

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: If the Minister had listened carefully, he would have noted that is what I said. Connolly Hospital is one such example, of which I have good knowledge from talking to the managers of that hospital. They told me they could not recruit agency staff at key times such as Christmas and other times as the staff did not want to work. I do not know what the numbers are. My question relates to the...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and on 8 April there were 32 people on trolleys, which was the second highest number in the State. The Minister is certainly not looking after the health service in that area. We need a huge investment in public health-----

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----which involves taking resources from elsewhere, taxing the wealthy in society and introducing a financial transitions tax. We cannot continue to keep gutting the health service and making people pay.