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An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Colscaradh) 2016: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016: Second Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The first thing I would like to say on the proposal of a thirty-fifth amendment to the Constitution to change the timeframe for divorce is that when the referendum was passed in 1995 it included a requirement for a four year separation period prior to divorce proceedings being started. I think it is not known by many people outside the House that this is stitched into the Constitution. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has completed its examination of new off balance sheet funding mechanisms in view of the failure to find any under the scheme announced in budget 2015; his views on the delay caused to the building of new social housing as a result; and if the funds allocated will now be immediately invested in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the numerical breakdown of the various methods local authority housing, rapid builds, family hubs, HAP and so on that he proposes to move the more than 800 homeless persons currently in private emergency accommodation out of hotels and bed and breakfasts by the end of June 2017; his plans for all the persons that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Student Accommodation (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the affordability of purpose-built student accommodation already available or under construction in Dublin; his plans to extend protections available for tenants under the Residential Tenancies Acts to student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17102/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: European Parliament Elections (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will bring forward an amendment to the Electoral Act 1992 to allow United Kingdom nationals resident here maintain their right to vote in European Parliament elections following the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17307/17]

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity supports this motion from the Green Party. The position of women who give birth to premature babies is not satisfactory and it highlights the lack of provision in general for pregnant women in this country. As the motion points out, a woman can defer her maternity leave but that is completely impractical given the fact that premature babies will often be in neonatal units and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I apologise to the Chairman but I must leave to speak in the Dáil now. I would have liked to participate in this discussion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It seems that the seriousness of this issue had not permeated the Government. The reputation of the whole system of justice has never been so low, yet the Taoiseach has not bothered to convene a committee on which key players sit and is choosing not to use the forum in question. If the Government is looking after all of this, why is the Taoiseach persisting with the fallacy that it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach should stop talking down the clock and answer my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I referred to the Garda, not the commission.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Ceann Comhairle must take up with the Taoiseach his avoidance of the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: May I ask a supplementary question given that the Taoiseach went one minute over time?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform last met. [16454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the funds due to the State from religious congregations for the redress scheme; if he has received commitments from the religious congregations regarding the payment of the balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the report of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Nils MuiŽnieks, relating to religious discrimination in school admissions and in the running of schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Social Housing Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for national asset residential property services, NARPS, units leased under the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, after NAMA ceases; his plans for private investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if persons accommodated in family hubs will be included in his Department's statistics on the number of homeless persons in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17029/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new build local authority completions excluding voids and regeneration units for each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of the relevant legislation governing short stay rental accommodation providers, such as (details supplied); the need for reforms to this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (5 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of information on estate management fees payable by tenants living in social housing managed by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17032/17]