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- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----but thanks to the Mniister of State we will be here until 11 p.m. every night in the summer.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I assume this will continue for the next few weeks as the Government rams through other measures which it could have got through the Dáil on the many occasions debate on other legislation finished early. Then the Government wonders why-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----there is no women in the Dáil to be howled down and shouted at by very loud men. The Minister of State should expect a lot more. The Government is going to be challenged at every inch and on every line of these amendments to the Bill because of its manoeuvring and the way it thought it could act in the belief that we would simply give up. People have asked why we do not walk out...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----and that they have to go to their community welfare officer-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: This is totally related because it is related to the way the Government has conducted this debate. Deputy Lawlor may have only just come into this House but some of us have been here for a few hours listening to the Minister of State meandering about Greece and all sorts of places.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: If the Deputies do not mind, I am going to stick-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: My point is that a very serious debate affecting thousands of women-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----is being shoved to conclude at 10.30 p.m. because of the Government's carry on.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a disgrace.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 361 of 24 March 2015, his views on the fur farming review group's conclusions; if he is satisfied with the outcome of its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26097/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the method used to send inquiries regarding possible changes in circumstances for those in receipt of child benefit; if there are certain categories of recipients who receive a higher number of letters checking their status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26595/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on any possible remedy to the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15, where there is a reduction in pension payments to pay back previous overpayments. [26597/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (1 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a telephone line service for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact the Passport Office regarding queries from constituents. [26491/15]
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The amendment that the Minister is proposing relates to the funding of Irish Water. I have questions on this that need to be examined. If this were Committee Stage, we would be dissecting how Irish Water is to be funded. Why are we carrying out the transfer in advance of seeing what is obtained from the payment of the water charges, for example? How do we even know that the €540...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, it relates to funding.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Will staff have to be directed to do that? Every Deputy in this House understands the pain and anguish suffered by people waiting for verification that they have been granted these allowances from representations we get. Will people have to be diverted through paying the €100 grant to bribe people to register for water charges? My last point concerns the local property tax and...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I know. I was in here until 11 p.m. last night.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Downloading stuff has been very difficult. In any business and certainly in any committee on which I have ever served, things like that would be handed out in advance so people have a chance to scrutinise what the Minister is saying in asking for such big powers to shift €500 million over from motor tax that people paid-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Can the Minister of State also tell us whether motor tax will be increased again in the budget to fund Irish Water?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: This is very relevant to the amendment.