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Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: By half-prioritising it?

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I live in a mixed-tenure estate.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the level of social housing to be provided on the last council-owned site in Blanchardstown (details supplied) in view of the large number of homeless persons in the area; if such a low level of provision is compulsory under his Department's mixed tenure policy; and if he will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask the Minister about the mixed tenure policy and, in particular, a case study for it. I refer to the last remaining piece of significant council land that is zoned for housing in the greater Blanchardstown area, which is identified as a homelessness blackspot. North, north west and west Dublin are key locations for homeless families. The pursuance of this policy will see the...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We are talking about 90 acres of council land. There is no other land that is zoned for housing, apart from in-fill spots in existing estates. We have a massive housing crisis. The Deputy has said that he wants to provide these units as quickly as possible. There is no reason that this could not be provided if the council maintains full development of it as quickly as possible. For low...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Do it here then.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Not in this area.

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: There are no other sites in the greater Blanchardstown area. It has a population of 100,000 people. All the other sites the Deputy speaks of are north of Fingal. Some smaller sites are being developed with 20 or 30 houses. I live right beside this location, and what could be done here is that 1,000 units could be developed. Some 50% of them could be social housing and 50% could be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: He is trying to find answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is called questions and answers.

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: That would be Castleknock.

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.