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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the current rule 68 for primary schools and replace it with another rule maintaining an integrated curriculum or requiring separate religious instruction and the teaching of the curriculum in a manner not informed by any particular religious denomination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45215/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (15 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given reports on 8 December 2015 of her view on religious discrimination in school admissions, if she will bring forward changes to section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45216/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will bring forward changes to the Education Act 1998 to enable the teaching of the curriculum in an objective and pluralist manner and not informed by religious ethos; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45217/15]

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: From the Seanad (Resumed) (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to raise the same issue. I have received a considerable amount of correspondence about this part of the legislation. I spoke earlier to the legislation before it went to the Seanad. However, this issue has only arisen because of the change made latterly by the Government. Groups such as the Centre for Disability Law and Policy in NUI Galway, the National Disability Authority,...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: "Can someone please tell me why my life and the lives of CF patients in Ireland have a price tag on them?" That question was asked by Jillian McNulty, who has written to the pharmaceutical authorities in Ireland describing how her life was transformed while partaking in a trial of Orkambi over two years and how her condition has gone backwards and deteriorated since the trial ended. As we...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister does not need to tell me about the pharmaceutical industry and how it is profiteering from people. In the United States currently, one company has raised the price of an AIDS drug by 5,000%. It costs $1 dollar to produce the drug, but the cost has been increased from $13.50 to $750. That is the kind of profiteering these companies engage in. The company that makes Orkambi...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Death Penalty (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been sentenced to death by Kenyan authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45415/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving a social protection payment, and the type of payment, in County Westmeath, in tabular form. [46227/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving a social protection payment, and the type of payment, in County Longford, in tabular form. [46228/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the income that is deductible for taxation purposes from rent on a property which has a mortgage loan on it and where the property owner owns no other property and is not deriving a net income from the rent (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45847/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 399. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the urgency of commissioning a second sexual abuse and violence in Ireland report, into sexual abuse incidences, given than the previous report was 13 years ago and given the need to accurately target resources based on properly researched data [46222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 466. To ask the Minister for Health the decisions he has made regarding the funding of Orkambi, a medicine that according to reports has improved the lives and conditions of cystic fibrosis sufferers; if he will ensure sufferers can access it through the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46229/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 652. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the climate change talks in Paris in France; his plans for a climate change plan in this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46226/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 649. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households on the local authority housing waiting list in County Longford currently, six months ago and 12 months ago. [46223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 650. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households on the local authority housing waiting list in County Westmeath, currently, six months ago and 12 months ago. [46224/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 651. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding allocated in April 2015 to County Westmeath over three years to buy, rent or lease properties for social purposes; the progress of these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46225/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 688. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to Cork County Council to upgrade roads in the past six months; and the funding allocated specifically to upgrade the Fota Road, which is the only road access into Cobh town in County Cork, given that many fatal accidents have taken place on this road. [46221/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to assist persons presented with massive rent increases by landlords, particularly those in receipt of rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1248/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I ask the Tánaiste to tell me what she has done to deal with the major problem of rent increases, particularly as they affect people on rent supplement, for which the Tánaiste is directly responsible, but also more generally. The number of families that have fallen into poverty or homelessness is continuing to increase on the Tánaiste's watch. I would like to mention a number...