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Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on children of homeless parents being put into care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7030/17]

Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is good to see the Minister for Social Protection sitting beside the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, today. I wonder why that is. I am sure the Minister will join with me in expressing solidarity with the women and men who are on strike at Tesco. They work to prevent their kids from falling into poverty. My question relates to the greatest fear that parents...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Staff (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It should also include au pairs.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach did not answer the question on the need for him and his Ministers to make statements.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: We get the point.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the work on recognition of the Traveller community's ethnicity; the expected timeframe for recognition of ethnicity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6733/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Incidence (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the statistics on domestic violence; her views on whether there is under-reporting of the figures here in view of the figures in Northern Ireland; her further views on whether there is a need to change a culture in An Garda Síochána on the accurate recording of domestic violence; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of current citizenship applications by year the applications were made, in tabular form. [7198/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if the apartments in need of remedial work in an area (details supplied) include apartments which completion of same was financed by NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households that are currently on social housing transfer lists nationally; if he will provide a breakdown for each of the years 2013 to 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7163/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement, with a breakdown according to the reason for the reduction in the numbers on rent supplement since January 2015 and including the numbers moved on to housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS; the number coming off rent supplement due to being permanently housed...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations Upgrade (14 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make an improvement to the facilities available to commuting rail passengers in stations in Dublin such as increased number of toilet facilities, retail facilities, modernisation of trains and other improvements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6866/17]

Commission of Investigation relating to disclosures by members of An Garda Síochána: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: There has been much focus on the rights of the Commissioner and why she should not have to step aside while this investigation takes place. Due process and in the interests of justice were terms used by the Minister earlier today. The reason for the decision to not ask the Commissioner to stand aside is that it would open up the whole appalling vista of the second Garda Commissioner in a...

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...