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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postal Services (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has studied the impact of likely competitive pressures on An Post, arising from the Postal Services Amendment Bill 2015, from the point of view of jobs and conditions of work. [23130/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to revise her Department's prioritising of the use of bank accounts for electronic payments over post office accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23181/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Parliamentary Questions (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will conduct a study on the number of staff hours in her Department that are spent on requesting Members of Dáil Éireann to withdraw parliamentary questions. [23205/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Conditions (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a report (details supplied) by the Young Workers Network, and especially the finding that 90% of those under 35 years of age struggle, due to low pay and zero hour contracts. [23326/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the Amnesty International report on the criminalisation of abortion here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23310/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that units (details supplied) at Connolly Hospital in Dublin 15 will remain open, and that existing places for residents will remain secure, until the new unit is open. [23182/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department has taken to ensure that the over 480,000 patients who are on a waiting list across the State's hospitals awaiting treatment receive such treatment as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23311/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will act on the National Positive Ageing Strategy 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23312/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 673. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the use of excessive police force against young persons and minority groups (details supplied) in McKinney, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, with the authorities in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23200/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 803. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the extension of the scheme to support national organisations funding for another year, his plans to put in place sustainable funding beyond June 2016 for the organisations in question. [23845/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Government has taken the power away from the councils and they have nothing to do as a result.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, and it happened on foot of a Government decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am open to the idea of a commission but people are concerned that it will just be another quango. How would such an entity impact on current council staff? We do not, for example, want people to lose their jobs. Neither do we want to see the maintenance of the electoral register or other electoral commission functions being privatised. I would baulk at the idea that judges must...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I have one area of concern. The Minister is saying that in order for someone to renew their registration as a teacher, they would have to show they have completed in-service training and continuing education, which is not specified. What exactly does the Minister mean? Has any teacher refused to go on in-service training? Is this an issue or a problem? My own experience in teaching is...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I have a question following what the Minister said. I was an insecurely employed teacher for a long time before I got a permanent job. I would welcome any improvement, but when will the Ward report be fully enacted? It was talked about a year ago and a draft report was mentioned on one of the union websites back in March. It seems to me that everything that is discussed regarding teaching...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I support the amendments. I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for tabling them because they would not have been raised otherwise. Let us consider the definitions listed in section 42 of the principal Act. They can mean many different things to many different people. We need far more definition of what constitutes the subject of a complaint. Let us consider "poor professional performance". What...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It was a poor professional performance on my part not to submit amendments on this section. The provision is so broad as to be clearly open to abuse by principals and boards of management. A psychologist friend of mine tells me that the greatest number of cases she deals with concerning workplace issues involve teachers. That is because principals, in particular, have a huge level of power...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Minister want me to talk about bullying of teachers?

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Really?

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I spoke about this issue on Second Stage when I made some of these points. It is unfortunate that the Minister chose to reject something that even the Teaching Council of Ireland had recommended, namely, that it be looked at on a case by case basis and that a sub-committee could make a recommendation on whether a case should be heard in public. For some reason, the Minister rejected that...