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- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: How much grant assistance did HP Inc. receive?
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister has 15 seconds left and she has not mentioned the grants.
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Will it avert the corporation tax HP Inc. pays?
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a day for asking questions.
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Does the Minister know how much corporation tax the company has paid?
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister even make a pretence of trying to answer any of the questions we submit for the Topical Issue debate? She arrived with a prepared script and did not bother to respond to any of the questions put to her. I asked about the State grants that are still being provided. The situation is reminiscent of the line from the song "Ordinary Man", by the Kildare singer, Christy Moore,...
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Five hundred workers and their families had to find out through the media, the television etc. that their jobs had been lost. These workers are from Kildare and west Dublin and many are from my constituency and other Dublin constituencies and around Leinster in general. What this brings centre stage again is the massive unique dependency of this country on American-owned foreign direct...
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy was not a backbencher at the time. He was a Minister of State.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Which one?
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: All of them.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: My heart is bleeding for them. Who is the Deputy? I have never heard him speak before.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that the larger parties in the Dáil are trying to unravel, on a very ad hocbasis, agreed Dáil reform that was argued and debated over a period of months. I do not mind listening to the issue of a second bite of the cherry, but what is happening is that, on an ad hocbasis, the larger parties are trying to get more and more speaking rights.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: For years smaller parties and Independents were squashed, and not one of the Deputies on the backbenches cared when members of smaller parties, who are elected on an equal basis to every single one of them, did not get a fair say in the Dáil.
- Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: The problem is that the two large parties are responsible for the health crisis and now their members will have more chances to speak on what they have caused for the past decade or so. The backbenchers generally have no interest in speaking in the Dáil, and it is quite amazing that they are now suddenly giving out.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is in the newspapers.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been denied preclearance to the United States in Dublin and Shannon Airports on grounds of their nationality since the President of the United States issued an executive order restricting travel of nationals of a number of Middle Eastern and African states. [6238/17]
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 58:In page 38, after line 12, to insert the following: “PART 9 CHANGING SEXIST AND ANTI-LGBTQ ATTITUDES56.The Minister for Justice and Equality is to report on measures that could be taken by the State to combat sexist and anti-LGBTQ attitudes in society, including: a review of sex education in schools and colleges; classes on consent, respect for women and LGBTQ...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: It is within the scope available to the Minister. She is the Minister for Justice and Equality. We tabled the amendment because the Minister is bringing in a law aimed at tackling prostitution and the sex industry through criminalising the purchase of sex. However, the Minister is not taking other measures to attempt to reduce the demand for the purchase of sex. We believe it is within...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 59:In page 38, after line 12, to insert the following: “PART 9 VICTIMS’ RIGHTS56.The Minister for Justice and Equality is to report to the Dáil on progress in developing a Victims’ Rights’ Bill and on additional measures necessary to fully support and protect victims’ rights, including guaranteed access to free counselling services...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I would like to have further information, although we have limited time to discuss this. When somebody who has potentially been, or who claims they have been, the victim of rape or a sexual assault goes to see a therapist or a counsellor, I would have thought that was a completely private discussion where somebody gives their most personal thoughts and feelings. Yet, it is proposed that the...