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- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I just asked a question.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: To correct this, the Whips committee had agreed a motion. Deputy Darragh O'Brien is wrong.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: No, we did not. I want to correct that because it is important. The Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit group agreed a motion. Then, for some reason, that motion was not agreed by you lot.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Not my words. It was the Green Party's words. The Deputy should be accurate.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Who is "we"?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: There are too many people coming into casualty the night before. It is a very simple.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the United States' National Security Advisor. [6113/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America. [6114/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on discussions with a company (details supplied) on the delivery of Orkambi for the public health service. [5627/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 461. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 571 of 31 January 2017, if he will alter the general practitioner visit card scheme to allow certificate of fitness to drive assessments on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5995/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding Regulations (7 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: 554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the regulation of puppy farms; the steps his Department takes to protect the welfare of dogs in such farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6119/17]
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 21:In page 20, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Review of supports and exit services for sex workers in prostitution 27. The Minister for Justice and Equality is to report on the education, language, training,financial, housing, healthcare, social welfare and rehabilitation services that should be provided by the State to support sex workers and...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I check the new rules? Is it not the case that anyone who tables an amendment can speak again?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: They have not.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: On the Minister's last point about exit strategies, the type of strategies needed genuinely to assist people who want to exit prostitution are financial support, language support and treatment for those who may have an addiction. A range of supports would be needed to allow those who want to get out of prostitution do so. The Minister would argue that the reason criminalisation of the...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I clarify that? What the Minister is saying is not clear.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: They tabled amendments as well.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: This is the first debate in which I have engaged since the new rules were introduced by the Oireachtas Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform. Essentially, we are meant to cover between five and six very complex amendments in seven minutes. This needs to be reviewed in light of the practical application of it because I think everybody agrees that this is an extremely complex Bill. It is...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 15:In page 20, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“(g) in section 11--(i) by designating the existing section as subsection (1), and (ii) by inserting the following subsection:“(2) It shall be a defence to proceedings for an offence under this section that-- (a) the brothel is used by that person to provide his or her own sexual services, and...