Results 981-1,000 of 6,881 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: As I said earlier, one would think Fine Gael would be keeping Denis O'Brien at arm's length given the previous connections.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very hard to speak without naming names.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Following on from The Taoiseach's controversial ringing of the bell at the New York Stock Exchange on 19 March 2012-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste also attended that conference, rather than keeping a million miles away. On 28 March 2012, she said this in the Dáil, "It is perhaps time for the Government to reflect on how it should in future interact with people against whom adverse findings have been made by tribunals [...] We live in a Republic and the representation of each citizen should be what counts rather...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----a company that is run by the richest man in Ireland, a media magnate and a tax exile, who has no intention of paying his taxes. He owns the company that is enforcing a water tax on millions of people. That this man should gain from this deal is an outrage.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: This is my final sentence. We have seen this week a Deputy arrested, we have seen Deputy Paul Murphy arrested-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----and we have seen the whistleblower John Wilson arrested.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: If this is not Kafkaesque, I do not know what is. I repeat that people sitting out there, worried about the toxic entity of Irish Water, are totally justified in joining the inevitable mass boycott of these bills.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste should not have met Denis O'Brien.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: He was investigated by a tribunal.
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Regarding the Water Services Bill and water charges, when will legislation be brought to the House regarding council and private tenants and the plans to extract unpaid water bill arrears from them? In addition, when will the threatened legislation from the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, be brought to the House regarding the so-called proposal to fast-track non-payments through the court...
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It was reported in The Irish Timesthat the Attorney General met with the Economic Management Council, which comprises the Tánaiste and three or four other Ministers, to discuss proposals to fast-track non-payers through the courts. I know it is bluster, but can the Tánaiste say if there is any truth in that and when this legislation will be available?
- Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It does not exist.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he supports water charges being based on metered use after 2019; his views on the Commission for Energy Regulation increasing the water charging rate after the cap ends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15776/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (23 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 100. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 15 April 2015, the training courses the military personnel of other states received here from the Defence Forces in the years 2011 to 2014, that is Israel, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Chad,...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is worthy of an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Of course he can.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: What does the Taoiseach mean by "your people"?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach's answer has nothing to do with the question asked.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cancer Strategy Implementation (28 Apr 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 251. To ask the Minister for Health in view of a recent report on cancer survival rates (details supplied), the measures he will take to improve these rates; to improve the cancer survival rates specifically in breast, cervix, ovarian and rectum cancers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16347/15]