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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...

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy was not a backbencher at the time. He was a Minister of State.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Which one?

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: All of them.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: My heart is bleeding for them. Who is the Deputy? I have never heard him speak before.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that the larger parties in the Dáil are trying to unravel, on a very ad hocbasis, agreed Dáil reform that was argued and debated over a period of months. I do not mind listening to the issue of a second bite of the cherry, but what is happening is that, on an ad hocbasis, the larger parties are trying to get more and more speaking rights.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: For years smaller parties and Independents were squashed, and not one of the Deputies on the backbenches cared when members of smaller parties, who are elected on an equal basis to every single one of them, did not get a fair say in the Dáil.

Business of Dáil (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The problem is that the two large parties are responsible for the health crisis and now their members will have more chances to speak on what they have caused for the past decade or so. The backbenchers generally have no interest in speaking in the Dáil, and it is quite amazing that they are now suddenly giving out.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is in the newspapers.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been denied preclearance to the United States in Dublin and Shannon Airports on grounds of their nationality since the President of the United States issued an executive order restricting travel of nationals of a number of Middle Eastern and African states. [6238/17]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 58:In page 38, after line 12, to insert the following: “PART 9 CHANGING SEXIST AND ANTI-LGBTQ ATTITUDES56.The Minister for Justice and Equality is to report on measures that could be taken by the State to combat sexist and anti-LGBTQ attitudes in society, including: a review of sex education in schools and colleges; classes on consent, respect for women and LGBTQ...