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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on extending eligibility for the domiciliary care allowance to persons aged under 18 years of age. [29700/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the gap between eligibility for domiciliary care allowance and eligibility for disability allowance, when a person reaches 16 years of age. [29701/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the assistance that is provided to persons who are eligible for domiciliary care allowance but not for the disability allowance, on reaching 16 years of age. [29702/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Data (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who receive domiciliary care allowance who are not eligible for disability allowance on reaching 16 years of age. [29703/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will revise the requirement that school leavers must have left school for three months before they are eligible under the jobseeker's allowance scheme. [29856/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures in place to ensure that new mothers who do not qualify for maternity benefit are not forced to go back to work before their babies are six months old, due to financial hardship. [29928/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Issues (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the negotiations regarding the third memorandum for Greece held on 11 and 12 July 2015 in Brussels in Belgium, and if he will make a statement on the result of these negotiations. [30303/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way his Department has attempted to increase job creation through the Action Plan for Jobs; the number of jobs expected to be created in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30305/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 447. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the latest Amnesty International poll on abortion rights here, according to which 67% of the population believe that it should be decriminalised (details supplied). [30297/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 448. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the findings of the poll by Amnesty International on abortion rights here, according to which 67% of the population believe that it should be decriminalised (details supplied). [30298/15]

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

Ruth Coppinger: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for outpatient appointments in the department of endocrinology in St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and the average waiting time for new patients. [29969/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of terminations carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 in 2014 that were abortions; and the number that were caesarean sections. [29970/15]

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

Ruth Coppinger: 597. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the situation regarding hospital overcrowding; and the amount spent since the beginning of the year specifically on this issue. [30300/15]

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

Ruth Coppinger: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has conducted an analysis on when hospital overcrowding and the need to use trolleys to accommodate the increased number of patients will be resolved. [30301/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 617. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the Irish participation in the United Nation's third international conference on financing for development to be held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Representations (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 632. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Government has formally requested the release of a person (details supplied) under a presidential decree; and if not, his plans to do so. [30302/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 702. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the Government's position on and aims for the conference of parties on climate change under the auspices of the United Nations to be held in Paris in France at the end of 2015; if he will report on preparations made by his Department in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 772. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the €18 million shortfall for homeless services from this year's budget as announced by Dublin City Council on 6 July 2015; and the reasons behind this shortfall. [30299/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (16 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 773. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of building condition assessments with damage condition rating 2 received by the Pyrite Resolution Board to date; and the number of houses remediated since the Pyrite Resolution Board began accepting the assessments in August 2013 [30304/15]

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We are being asked today to vote confidence in the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. I begin by expressing solidarity with the homeless families in Blanchardstown who are currently occupying a NAMA-built home. They stayed there over night and, by their actions, clearly have no confidence in the Taoiseach or his Government. Last night, I slept on a concrete floor with some of the...