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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The housing committee, the Minister for Finance and the Taoiseach himself have all expressed real concerns about the EU fiscal rules impinging on our ability to resolve our housing crisis. The structural rules, the structural balance rule, the expenditure benchmark and the debt rule have now become clear barriers to our investing in public, social and affordable housing, and I want to know...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Action Plan on Housing (29 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 13. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Action Plan on Housing will be published. [18473/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (29 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 34. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce rent controls; if so, the form they would take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18471/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on expanding the income limits for social housing to allow more low and middle-income workers to benefit from differential rents in tandem with a large-scale programme of direct building and acquisitions of vacant properties by the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18474/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 46. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to acquire distressed properties from vulture funds for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18470/16]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The reason I hesitated in beginning my contribution on the Bill is that, according to the new leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Brendan Howlin, during Leaders' Questions this morning, there is a doubt as to whether we can even be discussing this Bill. According to Deputy Howlin, it is potentially unconstitutional because the EU Commission has declared, in its opinion, that Ireland does not...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the citizens' assembly and how the Government plans to proceed in that regard. She mentioned that the Government was going to bring forward a proposal to the Dáil for us to analyse. I particularly want to ask whether the very badly named citizens' assembly will include any non-citizen. If it is to work strictly off the electoral register, as the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: A lot of people are excluded from the register, some 12%.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: When is the legislation due to be presented?

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a joke. The Tánaiste did not make any attempt to answer the questions.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: And one wonders about Brexit.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will facilitate the establishment of a gaelcholáiste with a multi-denominational and inclusive ethos and with a catchment area covering west County Dublin and east County Meath, and if he will meet with the Coiste Bunaithe of a school (details supplied) to discuss the matter. [18285/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he met with teachers and their unions on the issue of post-2011 entrants to teaching having a different pay rate to pre-2011 entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18286/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the practice in schools where a child's parents or a young person over 18 years of age can opt out of religious instruction; if he will issue guidelines to ensure this right is vindicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18287/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will end the position where newer teachers are on inferior pay rates and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18283/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure transport to and from a school for pupils from Dublin 15 who attend a school (details supplied). [18428/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of first time lettings of local authority housing and of lettings as a result of casual vacancies from 2010 to 2015, inclusive, as used to be published by his Department until 2009; if in 2014 and 2015 lettings as a result of casual vacancies are counted separately from lettings as a result of renovated voids...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new local authority units that were acquired and the number that were leased under the Part V scheme in 2015. [18233/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 200. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the new units leased under the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, scheme in 2015 and 2014 that were leased from private landlords and developers; the number of those that were under the Part V scheme; the number of the new SHCEP units in 2014 and 2015 that were leased from National Asset...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (28 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 264. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the numbers in receipt of rent supplement fell from 71,533 in January 2015 to 61,247 at the end of 2015 and 57,605 at the end of March 2016; and the numbers currently in receipt of rent supplement. [18120/16]