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Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (4 Apr 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 536. To ask the Minister for Health his views on opt-out basis as opposed to opt-in basis for organ donation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16349/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: My question is on Pillar 3 and the number of houses being built, especially for social housing. The final figure for new build housing last year was released. The number was 652. This was evenly split between the housing bodies and local authorities. However, when we exclude regeneration, which is simply replacing pre-existing stock that was social housing stock at one point, only 253 new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: What is the largest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: They are getting land for free.

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity - People Before Profit Deputies pushed for this debate to be put on the agenda and it has been difficult to reach agreement. The Taoiseach justified visiting a racist, sexist American President and offering him the hand of friendship - I do not know why the Minister of State is making a face - on the grounds that he would make a case about immigration and the illegal, undocumented...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 22. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the remedy there will be for 14,700 persons wrongly convicted of road traffic offences due to errors in Garda records; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15753/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the implementation of the provisions of the International Protection Act 2015; if she is satisfied that asylum seekers are gaining access to sufficient legal advice and translation services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15752/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will change the regulations so persons applying for jobseeker's benefit payments will be assessed on the most recent complete tax year, in order to end the inequity of contributions made by employees in the previous year not being taken into account when calculating jobseeker's benefit, for example, the relevant tax year for jobseeker's...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity welcomes the opportunity to discuss the delivery of the new children's hospital and how best to deliver quality health care for children. We have serious misgivings about the cost of the new hospital. As the motion outlines, there has been an increase in the cost from €404 million in 2012 to approximately €1 billion in 2017. We are told that much of the added cost...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: When will the judicial council Bill be brought before the Dáil? Will it deal with what I believe to be a sinister development? The Director of Public Prosecutions has sent a letter to defendants who are facing trial in April in respect of events in Jobstown. She has asked them not to participate in an event at Liberty Hall on Saturday which has been widely advertised and which will be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: This is the most political trial of the decade.

Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the tabling of the debate albeit we should also be discussing the Bus Éireann strike. I send solidarity to the workers who will be here later today. On the impasse in the assembly in the North, I note that the Good Friday Agreement has created a period of relative peace and an important opportunity for working class and ordinary people to build a political alternative to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he had with a bank (details supplied) regarding the announcement of branch closures and jobs losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact of branch closures of a bank (details supplied) on the availability of banking services to persons here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with the Financial Services Union regarding the branch closures and job losses announced in a bank (details suppled). [15648/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 199. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she will take regarding the announced 220 job losses in a bank (details supplied); if she will meet with the bank and the Financial Services Union regarding this threat to employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15649/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It was. It has been in existence for years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The are using European-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, the Democratic Unionist Party was set up in 1971.

Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: May I raise a point on that?