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- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: That is not the way other people see it, and we should not allow this resignation to be used to quash debate.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It was not unanimous if somebody disagreed with it.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It was not unanimous.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: No. Obviously we registered our position at the Business Committee. How can it be acceptable when a Minister resigns or is effectively sacked, another Minister has questions has questions to answer and the Taoiseach himself has questions to answer that there is no place for the matter to be discussed in the Dáil today? Not everybody can participate in Leaders' Questions, but there are...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: How was it acceptable for a Minister to come in and answer questions for all parties and why can it not be done this week? I appeal to other parties and individual Deputies not to allow this bureaucratic manoeuvre to quash debate. Clearly, the big two parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, have decided to press down the lid on this matter, but it certainly is not enough for people outside...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: This relates to the Order of Business. Nothing was said at the Business Committee about the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and his answering questions is not on the agenda. It is not good enough for an apology to be made. There really are serious issues. Even some of the points the Taoiseach made-----
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: He basically excused the Minister and said there had been a feeding frenzy.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is utterly unacceptable. We will not allow this matter to rest until it is put on the agenda. Is it not great how Fianna Fáil has handed over its no confidence motion time for Government business? There is nothing to be seen here-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: When is he making it?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is about Ministers.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not convenient.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The humility shown here today is astounding.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Status (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of entries on the foreign births register in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017. [50293/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of passports issued to persons resident outside the State in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [50294/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 234. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of passports issued to persons living in Northern Ireland in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [50295/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Status (28 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of persons registered with his Department's citizens' registration service as being resident abroad. [50296/17]
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: -----in the country were acquired, everyone would have a house. That is the solution. We have a proposal regarding Dublin West, which is the Taoiseach's constituency, and I challenge the Minister of State to support it. The council has sat on 90 acres of land in the greater Blanchardstown area for a number of years and has not devised a development plan. We could comfortably build at...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The last time I debated with the Minister of State in the House, he made the astounding statement about our international reputation on homelessness. A constituent wrote an email to me about that and I wish to read a little of it before I give my presentation. She wrote:Dear Taoiseach, I write this email to convey my concern and absolute disagreement with recent comments made by Eileen...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I want to begin by congratulating the Government for breaking a record - the highest number of rough sleepers since records began ten years ago, as my colleagues have said, with 184 in Dublin on one night plus 50 in the Merchants Quay café who were not able to get somewhere. They are not counted, by the way, in the Department's official homelessness report of October 2017, which counts...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: He supports this Bill as well. One can do two things at the one time.