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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the process for awarding patronage of new secondary schools in the Dublin 15 area; if the diversity in the population was considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10412/17]
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity was reborn last week and hit Tesco with a vengeance. When Tesco management announced its intention to cut workers' pay and rip up the contracts of people who had worked for it, for three decades in some cases, forcing them out on strike, it assumed it could isolate a small group of workers within the workforce but it seriously underestimated two things. The first is the workers...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 5. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 24 January 2017, when the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform will take place. [8460/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the public support for the Apollo House occupation, he will support making all remaining suitable NAMA lands available for social and affordable housing and allocating NAMA’s cash reserves towards the provision of social and affordable housing. [2177/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concentration in ownership of residential development land by vulture funds as a result of land sales by NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2180/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Assessments (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the local property tax, LPT, for a property (details supplied) in Dublin 15 was calculated for the years 2012 to 2017. [10283/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (28 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has withdrawn the HSE national lottery grants for 2017; and if so, if he will make alternative funding options available to the groups and organisations involved in the provision of health and personal social services that depend on such funding for the important services they provide. [10288/17]
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I can tell the Minister.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The O'Devaney Gardens site is valued at €14 million and it will contain a certain number of units, with developers allowed to build 584 such units. That is how I worked it out. I will speak about the Minister's new proposal for affordable rental units in the limited time I have. His document indicates that in rent pressure zones:Lands held by local authorities will be brought to...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: No, I do not. The Minister is demonising council housing.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Not when there is a housing crisis.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Such as?
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: We will never be able to house all the people.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The councils need more money.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the policy of the hand-over or sale of publicly-owned land to private developers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9038/17]
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask about the policy of the Government and of local authorities that involves selling off or gifting public lands to private developers, thereby allowing them to control even more of the housing supply at a time of housing emergency. This represents a huge break with the past, when the councils would have built public housing on those lands. I think this is a key problem and is...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I am talking about public landbanks.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I will explain how this is operating in Dublin City Council, which is the pilot for every other council, including my own local council, about which I will speak in a minute. Under the Dublin City Council land initiative, 50% of properties will be privately owned, 20% will be rented out privately and just 30% will be social housing. That is absolutely scandalous. To be clear on the rented...
- Business of Dáil (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: May I ask a question?
- Business of Dáil (23 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I also want to register that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle did not call anyone from our group on the previous business.