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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (9 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 839. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of Health Service Executive marriage solemnisers, in view of the approval of the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Act 2015. [22200/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (9 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 840. To ask the Minister for Health subject to full discussions and approval from the solemnisers and their trade unions, his plans to increase the availability of Health Service Executive marriage solemnisers at weekends. [22201/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 996. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed report, in tabular form, of the average class size, per subject, in secondary schools. [22191/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 997. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the class size policy (details supplied) of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland is followed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22192/15]

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Ceann Comhairle not meant to ask people to answer the questions?

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Irish Water will not fix the lead pipes.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not know if the Minister does any political reading but obviously in the Dáil, there is not a high level of debate. Outside this Chamber there is a great deal of political writing. I recently visited America where Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has been writing about a corporatecoup d’état, a global corporate takeover of society whereby what he calls the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the position of religious orders in the provision of education in view of the strong support for marriage equality for same-sex couples in the recent referendum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22024/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (11 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the reported increase in family homelessness in the Dublin area; the measure his Department has taken to tackle it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22335/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (11 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the assistance she will provide in respect of a family (details supplied) in Dublin 15 which faces homelessness due to rent supplement limits being lower than the market rates. [22782/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake a review of wheelchair policy in order to greatly improve the quality of the service. [22729/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the research by a person (details supplied) on wheelchair provision and maintenance; if his Department will be implementing changes to policy regarding the provision and maintenance of wheelchairs in order to address the concerns raised in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22730/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have been experiencing difficulties in securing adequate wheelchair resources from the Health Service Executive; and the steps he will take to ensure that their needs are met. [22733/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on Construction 2020, housing, planning and mortgage arrears last met. [21844/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The reason we have asked this question is because I have been in the Dáil for just over a year and in that time we have not had a debate on housing. I participated in the debate on the housing Bill last year but since then there has not been a debate on the biggest disaster and crisis facing the majority of people in this country. The Taoiseach mentioned a couple of issues and said...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There is not one house in Dublin 15. The reason for that is because the council does not have any land, and also because NAMA has many houses in Dublin 15. It has 170 units in Hollywood Rath on 20.98 acres. As to the type of unit in question, they are mansions. No one in Dublin 15 who is on the housing list can afford them. We have a housing crisis but let NAMA, which is paid for by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes. What people who are waiting on housing are forced to do when their rent supplement is not increased is to pay illegal top-ups on their rent to landlords. It is the only type of social welfare fraud that I do not hear the Government giving out about, because the people who benefit from the fraud are wealthy landlords and those who suffer from it are the poorest people in the State who...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There are more homeless people now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: They are not social houses.

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Government's decision to accept this Bill is extremely welcome. It is a tribute to the social movement that took place around the marriage equality referendum. Let us face it, if that referendum had not been passed in such a decisive way, we probably would not be having this debate or seeing the Government accepting the Bill. I take this opportunity to thank the teachers' unions, the...