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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.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We promised to get rid of water charges and we did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contact with other heads of government. [27222/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Maybe I can take an extra half a minute for Deputy Barry's question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thought the Leas-Cheann Comhairle would be liberal. I wanted to first ask the Taoiseach about his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May. The Taoiseach seemed a bit star struck in Downing Street. He quoted one of the worst films ever made.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder, in between all of that, did the Taoiseach have time to ask Mrs. May what at this point is probably the biggest question on the lips of most of the population in Britain, that is, is she going to resign? I wonder if they had time to discuss the outcome of the election in Britain. Increasingly, what we saw in the election was an endorsement of left and socialist policies and I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I will just finish. The Taoiseach spoke by phone with President Macron. In terms of the populist vote, where stands the Taoiseach's Minister, who talked about one-in-eight seats being for populist parties including Jeremy Corbyn? He seemed to be including those who put principled-left positions in a populist camp, which is very unprincipled.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We stand for the complete opposite.

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: How long do we get to speak? Can we work that out now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I was at another committee meeting when they made them. The issue of short-term lettings has been raised in the Dáil on many occasions by various people. While companies such as Airbnb are having an obvious impact, I think they are becoming a convenient scapegoat to be thrown up as a reason for the housing shortage. We do not have Airbnb...