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Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (31 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will abolish prescription charges for pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4283/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (31 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the Luas extension; the improvements to transport in the Dublin 15 and Dublin 7 areas to connect with the Broombridge terminus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (31 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 778. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children that have been taken into care and whose parents are homeless in each of the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4340/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: What laws will the Government introduce to deal with what happened yesterday in Limerick where 12 workers face losing their jobs and 64 men who are living in a hotel as refugees have been evicted from their homes of long standing? On page 29 of A Programme for a Partnership Government, there is a commitment to provide greater protection for mortgage holders and tenants whose loans fall into...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That is not what I asked.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I am not talking about the housing strategy.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: With respect, that is not the question the Minister was asked.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: He was asked about a specific situation in Limerick-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: -----involving a vulture fund. It is not going to be dealt with by that legislation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Nine families can be evicted under that legislation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: So the Minister has nothing to say to the refugees or the workers in Limerick. Great.

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Harding Clark report is another injustice to the women who had symphysiotomies against their will. The report is unbalanced, flawed and not objective. It should not be accepted and promoted by the Government. The report was released before Christmas but we are only discussing it at the end of January because a number of Deputies intervened and demanded that it be discussed in the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: That is pathetic.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is the occasion for a big joke, is it?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Expenditure (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost over the next five years of increasing mortgage interest relief for landlords to 100%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the accuracy of housing completion statistics relied on by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the evidence he has for the claim that landlords are exiting the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current rate of return for landlords on private residential property with a buy to let mortgage and with no mortgage in view of his previous statements that the rationale for allowing rent increases of up to 4% in rent pressure zones was to ensure a rate of return for landlords of 4%. [2546/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide information on the planned reduction in social housing provision at publicly owned sites earmarked for redevelopment under land initiative style proposals, relative to the amount of council housing historically provided on those sites when estates were originally built. [2547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Data (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of former local authority housing that is now in the private rented sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3179/17]