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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Services Programme Administration (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will increase funding of community centres to ensure workers receive a wage higher than the national minimum wage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43809/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Services Programme Administration (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder if the Minister can help so that people doing vital work in community centres can be brought above the poverty line, where many of them now live. There is a terrible anomaly between workers getting the national minimum wage and those on community employment, CE, or Tús schemes. Ironically, people on the schemes can end up having more income because they are also entitled to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: When I raised this idea with the Taoiseach earlier in the month, he said it was a good idea and indicated that he would look into it. However, in a letter he sent subsequently the fund was no longer mentioned. Instead, he pointed towards six funds. Is the Government seriously suggesting people go out fundraising and then claim from six funds, with all of the administration that involves?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: It is bizarre that fire safety regulations were increased, yet there is no mechanism to help organisations to meet them. Unfortunately, local authorities do not run all community centres. That is the problem. The greyhound industry which many believe is cruel received €17 million from the Government in the recent budget, while community centres have been left to bag-pack, organise...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will establish a national fund to assist community centres in need of fire safety works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43806/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister will be aware that fire and safety audits are being done by many community centres and it results in them needing to significantly enhance their buildings and raise funds for that work. We all agree with increased fire safety regulations but there has to be a way for public buildings and community centres to get this work done. Hartstown and Huntstown are two community centres...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of funds on the discharge of a person (details supplied) to a suitable specialist centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43752/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she received veterinary advice on the partial lifting of the ban on netting hares due to the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus; her views on a possible spread of the virus among the hare population here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43683/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 226. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will require captured hares to be microchipped; if veterinarians and the National Parks and Wildlife Service will be involved in supervision of the netting and release of hares; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43798/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) and others with an interest in animal welfare to discuss the issue of the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus and the netting of hares. [43684/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if parents on current subsidy schemes such as the community childcare subvention programme and the childcare education and training support programme will be detrimentally affected following the introduction of the national childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43277/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach must not understand the concept.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations climate action summit. [43150/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I hope I will get extra time as well, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I am sorry. There is no question that a Citizens' Assembly on gender equality will have its work cut out for it because there are so many issues such as the gender pay gap, the costliest childcare in Europe that often prevents women getting promoted and continuing in employment, precarious housing and jobs and the pensions Deputy Burton mentioned. She was also responsible for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: It is difficult to have equality when women's lives and safety are also at risk. The Taoiseach agrees that according to the statistics there is an epidemic of violence against women. Of the 225 women who have been murdered since 1996, nine out of ten were killed by their own partners and 61% were killed in their own homes. We signed the Istanbul Convention but we have only one in three...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the preparations for the Citizens' Assembly on gender equality. [43149/19]

Acknowledgement and Apology to Women and Families affected by CervicalCheck Debacle: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the women, men and families who have come to the House today. I realise that, for them, it must be at least somewhat of an important step that there would be a formal State apology. It is an apology in words but is it an apology in deeds? We continue to outsource a vital health service and still women are being pursued by the State through the courts. Those two vital issues have...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a fund will be re-established to assist childcare facilities in meeting fire and other safety criteria; if a fire safety audit of all premises in which there are childcare facilities will be conducted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43278/19]