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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder would the Taoiseach go to the Cabinet with a proposal to change the name of Rebuilding Ireland because it is not rebuilding Ireland. The lowest figures for public sector house building were released last week. They were buried under the other problems the Government had last week but I wish to bring them to the Taoiseach's attention in case he missed them. We thought we were doing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: My ceist is this. The single issue that is the problem here is the Government is wedded to private housing. The Government has a distaste for public sector housing, as evidenced by the fact it will not build any. That is the real problem we have in this country.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Those reliant on social and affordable housing have no prospect, based on the figures I have seen.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I did not indicate but I was planning to do so.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Nevertheless, I would like to know when the Government intends to introduce the legislation that is clearly needed to deal with what is happening in Tesco. I welcome the Sinn Féin Bill on the right to representation, which is to be proposed in this House later in the week. When will the Government bring forward legislation on the rights of workers in this country? Is the Government...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach is saying that people can be in a union but that it does not mean anything.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is not a serious change.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Shock horror.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Since the Business Committee met on Thursday to agree this business, there has been a very important development at the largest private sector employer in this State, namely, Tesco. New stores have come out on strike and talks have broken down. I request that the Business Committee meet today to discuss tabling Tesco as a matter for debate in the Dáil this week. This is the largest...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and Tesco has engaged in union-busting. I therefore request that the House agree that this deserves to be put on the agenda of the Dáil this week as a priority and that the Business Committee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I have to leave at some time after 11.30 a.m. for another event, so I apologise. Everyone will have seen the recent rent figures confirming the highest rent increases since records began. According to Focus Ireland, one in three tenants struggles to pay rent every month, and one in nine is worried about losing his or her home. That shows us that this threat is right across a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the prevalence of persons coming off rent supplement due to becoming homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8454/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the commitment to accept more refugees from the Syrian conflict; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8274/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a long-term 30 to 60 years plus cost benefit analysis of the proposed new mortgage-to-rent scheme was carried out to compare it to the cost benefit to the State of taking ownership of the homes and leasing them to the occupants, especially taking into account that many of the mortgages in question are owed to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the penalties applicable to landlords that violate the maximum allowable rent increases in rent pressure zones, the way this will be policed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the alteration in the numbers of social housing builds for 2016 between Wednesday 8 and Friday 10 February in communications from his Department. [8330/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 473. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the location of the children's hospital in view of the increase in costs for the hospital at the St. James's site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8556/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 646. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who had previously been living in direct provision who were subsequently placed in care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Care Orders (21 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 647. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the large divergences in the granting of care orders by different courts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8332/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (16 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on recognition of Traveller ethnicity. [7682/17]