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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Costs (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to difficulties musicians face in obtaining commercial motor insurance (details supplied); his plans to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24890/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of residential properties owned by the Office of Public Works in the Phoenix Park that are vacant; the plans of the OPW to have such properties occupied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25136/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Adoption Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if adoptive leave will be provided for same-sex couples in view of the fact that circular 18/2013 does not cater for the needs of these couples (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25063/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 579. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with the United Kingdom authorities regarding the operation of legislation for the termination of pregnancies here and the way in which it impacts on Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25328/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 1216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of increasing jobseeker's allowance to €196 for all those under 26 years of age in receipt of the €107.70 and €152.80 rates. [24549/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 1217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of increasing the jobseeker’s allowance to €152.80 per week for all those under 26 years of age in receipt of the €107.70 rate. [24550/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 1218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of increasing the jobseeker’s allowance to €196 per week for all those under 26 years of age in receipt of the €152.80 rate. [24551/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (12 Jun 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 1219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the jobseeker's allowance rate for those under 26 years of age to the full payment rate of €196 will be restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24552/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to invoke the name of Savita, as others have, as well as the Citizens' Assembly. There is no doubt that only for the strong pro-choice message that the Citizens' Assembly delivered politicians in here would not have gone as far as they were forced to go. We should register who delivered the "Yes" given the gender-quake and youth-quake that took place on Friday. Among female 18 to 24...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the plans to legislate for the referendum vote that took place at the weekend. Time is of the essence. Is the legislation already written and prepared? People expected that it would be and that we would do all that is possible to get the legislation passed by the end of the summer. There are two issues I want the Minister to consider before he...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: No. Could more than five minutes be allocated to make statements on the referendum? Only five minutes per political grouping is available and the scale of what happened on Friday and Saturday is so huge that we need time to assimilate it, for example, before the Minister publishes the legislation.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Please, I am allowed a minute to explain why I think it is important.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputies and Senators who took the "No" position may want to decide they want to live in a different time zone to the one they advocated. Primarily, however, this Dáil should discuss the massive numbers who turned out to vote, the huge increase of 100,000, almost 10% more than voted before and the revolutionary response they gave in respect of church and State. Could ten minutes be...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Martin should have thought about that five years ago and we would not have this.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A burning issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It sounds like he is preparing for a "Yes" vote.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask about the implementation of the Sláintecare report. In the Joint Committee on Health this morning and as reported on the front of The Times, Ireland edition the president of the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine has said that cost was the main reason the testing of cervical smears was outsourced to American labs. It gives an insight into how the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: When the Taoiseach is thanking the parties that support the referendum he might mention parties like Solidarity-People Before Profit and others in this Dáil that brought repeal Bills here, whose members have not voted down repeal Bills and whose members are not out campaigning against repeal. In 48 hours, people will have begun voting in the referendum on the eighth amendment. Will...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We saw in the debate last night just how backward and reactionary the "No" side is. There are some people in this Dáil who claim to love both but they were not showing too much love in several debates in this Dáil. For example, one of the Deputies in a debate in 2010 on social welfare talked about the elephant in the room, the considerable number of young women "many of whom are...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is how much they love both, and we heard all the guff in 1983 about how they were going to help people. I will finish by mentioning one inaccuracy that needs to be corrected and it concerns the abortion pill. Based on two of the websites, Women on Web and Women Help Women, five people a day in Ireland are estimated to use these pills. We should be accurate and not scare people...