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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for primary school education; if she has any plans to restore teachers' pay and conditions, including newly qualified teachers; to reduce class sizes to 20 pupils; to reverse cuts to the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme; to reverse cuts to special needs education; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the lack of diversity of school patronage in areas of high multicultural populations, such as west Dublin at both primary and secondary levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33976/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the options open to a person (details supplied) who is currently homeless to restore her weekly income, given the successive cuts to the lone parent payment imposed by her Department. [34876/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the options open to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 to restore a weekly income given the cuts to the lone-parent payment in July 2015 and the impact this has had on this person's financial situation. [34877/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Seanad Elections (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of registered post for ballot papers in the cultural and educational panel by-election to Seanad Éireann in 2014. [34792/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Seanad Elections (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of registered post for ballot papers in the National University of Ireland and University of Dublin constituencies in the general election to Seanad Éireann in 2011. [34793/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seanad Reform (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the by-election process for Seanad Éireann, whereby only Members of the Oireachtas have a vote. [34794/15]

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: That is for three years.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Last week on Leaders' Questions I asked the Taoiseach if he agreed that the housing crisis was the most pressing issue in the country right now and to declare a housing emergency. This week I would like to put the same questions to the Labour Party because the Taoiseach did not declare a housing emergency but people might expect a different response from the Labour Party. I was somewhat...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We have had all this talk for four and a half years. It is too late for the families who are suffering. It is four and a half years too late for the Labour Party to turn its attention to this issue. The Minister spoke of a lack of supply. To reiterate the point on house building, 8,794 council houses were built in this country in 1975. I have just told the Minister that this year 500...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Perhaps Deputy Lawlor might not make a show of himself by shouting over what I have to say.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The fact the Labour Party has left this to weeks, potentially, or even months before a general election is a serious error. This is permeating through working-class and even middle-income communities. Many people are stuck paying €1,700 or €1,800 in rent each month. The Labour Party has made a serious error. Will the Minister please answer this: if he believes it is an...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Where did that happen?

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Government is creating them.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, could not have done better than that. It is an absolute lie and an evasion of the questions as usual. With homeless people sitting in the Gallery, the Minister should be ashamed of himself in not taking this matter seriously.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: No, he never thought he was. He is a posh boy.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the consultation paper 88 on credit unions from the Central Bank of Ireland . [34964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the new restrictions contained in the consultation paper 88 on credit unions from the Central Bank of Ireland will be detrimental to the credit union movement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34965/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement regulations that will give effect to the consultation paper 88 on credit unions from the Central Bank of Ireland. [34966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on altering the deposit interest retention tax rate according to the level of interest paid in order that persons with modest savings are not taxed at the same rate as those with a considerable income from interest payments. [35030/15]