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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]

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

Ruth Coppinger: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of former local authority housing now in the private rented sector that is being subsidised through the payment of rent subsidies through RAS, HAP, RS and so on, ultimately paid to private landlords; his views on the rationality from the State's perspective of this practice; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if he will comment on reports of hare coursing being an activity supported as part of a therapeutic service (details supplied) in County Mayo; his views on hare coursing being supported in this way; if there are other parts of the health service giving any support to hare coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2633/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Research Board Funding (24 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 505. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist the funding of clinical trials for multiple sulfatase deficiency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3191/17]

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: They were giving plenty of opinions.

Other Questions: Water Charges (19 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The best option for the Minister is to let this go.

Other Questions: Rent Controls (19 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress in extending rent pressure zones to other areas. [2178/17]

Other Questions: Rent Controls (19 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask when the Minister will expand the rent pressure zones and why he has taken such a softly, softly approach to the whole question. Rents are rising at a faster rate in places like Kildare, Meath, Laois and other areas adjacent to Dublin, in the suburbs of Cork and in areas adjacent to Galway, Limerick and Waterford cities but the Minister has not extended the rent pressure zones...