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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a bit pathetic for the Taoiseach to start this rather than answer the question he was asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: If he thinks that approach will get him any kudos, he is wrong. This is a serious issue and------

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: And he is not answering it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Ceann Comhairle should pull him up for refusing to answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Bolsheviks were great champions of LGBT rights.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Taoiseach need a history lesson?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Stalin was actually responsible for those events.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: If this is the way the Taoiseach is going to go, it is unbelievable. So-called new politics. Liberal and young----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is pathetic.

Rent Transparency Bill 2017: First Stage (27 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a pity the Government did not take an amendment I tabled on this matter last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I would like to raise the topics of homelessness and social housing with the Minister. It is no surprise to me or to many others that the July target for solving the emergency accommodation issue will not be met. The Minister apparently announced €10 million today to move 200 families from hotels and B&Bs into hubs. It seems to me, unless I am interpreting the figures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay. I am finishing on that now. The proof is that workers have told me they are not getting payslips and they work on the Dolphin regeneration project. Officials from the Department of Finance or wherever can look into it. I am sure it is quite depressing for those who, believe it or not, occasionally listen in to these debates, that we are not hearing any announcement of a change in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: On the same question, can the Minister comment on my point that €10 million to deal with 200 families is €50,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I am only apologising because I have to leave at 4 p.m., because it started an hour later. This is in case I have to leave before the end. Just to say, however, that our job is to interrogate the spending of money.

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: This motion is given added poignancy by the disaster in Grenfell in London, and I extend my sympathies to all affected. What it showed was class, race and, as has been said, corporate manslaughter, and one of the issues is the outsourcing of public housing to private companies, a process which is happening here. The Dáil and the housing committee in particular should get a report and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: What about the Apple tax issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Not even Hugh Grant would say it was his finest hour.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That is fine.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The romantic poets are my favourite.