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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Surely we do not need a directive from Europe to put something in legislation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: These two amendments are very important. I generally welcome them. The matter in amendment No. 76 is a massive problem in any area that has seen development in the last ten years and before that. It was a problem when I was a councillor in the early 2000s, when so much development was taking place. Even though developers were making substantial profits, they were still flying from area...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I would obviously like to see that because this is one of the key problems that we have in the last number of years in the escalation of the housing crisis, including, it would seem, NAMA hoarding land as well. I will wait to see what the Minister does, but I would like to have the potential to introduce an amendment as well on that issue.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I do not have a problem with that proposal. It makes sense that one would have an initial consultation with the planning authority. That generally happens in any event. If people are complaining about the length of time that it takes, it is clearly because staff and resources are an issue in all the local authorities. The number of planners, architects and directors of services has been...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the European Union Foreign Affairs Council on 3 April 2016; the steps he intends to take to support Iraqi and Syrian nationals impacted by the conflict to come here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18305/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (12 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Rome and the opening of the embassy to the Holy See; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18304/17]
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I understand that my colleague raised on the Business Committee the prospect of a debate on the Bus Éireann situation. Will the Ceann Comhairle give an assurance that such a motion could be tabled between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on Thursday? I raise this issue because at that point workers will at have been on strike for more than 20 days. This is the equivalent of four week's pay for...
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
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- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
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- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The reason we should debate it is the 2,600 workers who depend for their livelihood on Bus Éireann. There is talk of redundancies and reducing the composite pay of the workers by a dramatic amount. We have not had a proper debate on this in the Dáil. We have had Topical Issue debate with Deputies speaking for one minute, but this is obviously the key industrial dispute of our...
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil did the same.
- Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It certainly was our understanding that the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services would issue its findings today and that there would be two sessions scheduled for the debate on water. That was the understanding last week, not 80 minutes of statements. The concept of statements is becoming quite comical to the public. We continually make statements rather than...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of permanent contracts in SOLAS and FÁS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17753/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to cases of workers that have been employed for over eight years by SOLAS through agencies to fill the same post and that are unable to seek permanency in view of the fact they are considered contract workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17754/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: UN Committees (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will implement the recommendations of the United Nations committee on the elimination of discrimination against women (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17873/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 409. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the welfare of a person (details supplied) currently detained in Egypt in view of renewed concerns for their health and well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17545/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that employees of the State posted abroad as part of their duties are not disadvantaged by the health insurance lifetime community rating scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17937/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (11 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 630. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the removal of ex officio positions for the Roman Catholic Church in the governing bodies of the National Maternity Hospital; if he will seek a change in the hospital's charter relating to the composition of the governing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18262/17]
- Topical Issue Debate: Sports Funding (6 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Does the Minister of State find it acceptable that the head of the FAI is apparently on a salary of €360,000 yet failed to engage and did not want to engage at all with representatives of the women players for a number of years? The Minister of State is saying it is great that it was sorted out. Is there not some responsibility on him as Minister of State to call the FAI to account...
- Topical Issue Debate: Sports Funding (6 Apr 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State's patronising answers are a real insult.