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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have obviously touched a raw nerve with Deputy Martin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: May I finish on this point?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On the question of meeting religious leaders, two issues arise: education and the eighth amendment. It seems clear that there has been a change in the Government's position. Under the previous Government which involved the Labour Party, many people were of the impression that there were going to be reforms under which an increasing number of schools would not be faith based but open to all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with religious leaders since the general election. [15855/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the reform of Seanad Éireann. [15854/16]

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The number of people who have been forced into the private rented sector has effectively doubled in Ireland. The private rented sector is the sector of insecurity, stress, poverty and homelessness. Some 40 years ago, local authorities provided one third of all housing in this State. Today, the corresponding provision is minuscule. Instead, low-income families are forced into the private...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform is due to next meet. [15853/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on health is due to next meet. [15852/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-Committee on Housing is due to next meet. [15851/16]

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is unbelievable that having received such a stern rebuke, the Taoiseach is going to continue with the delaying tactic of a citizens' assembly. He has spoken about listening to women in the case of the Magdalens - we could argue that one - and in the case of marriage equality but he did not listen to women when Savita Halappanavar died. At that time, rather than saying it was absolutely...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On Thursday the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a serious condemnation of this State. This is the first opportunity we have had to hear from the Taoiseach directly about how he intends to respond. The human rights committee found Ireland's laws subjected Amanda Mellet to severe emotional and mental pain and suffering by denying her access to abortion services in Ireland. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will continue the practice of his recent predecessors in not signing deeds of variation for national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15952/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has taken to tackle the sewage related pollution that resulted in the closure of the beaches in Rush, Skerries, Balbriggan and Loughshinny in north County Dublin; and how he will ensure that such incidents do not happen in the future. [15569/16]

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the accommodation of homeless children in adult homeless accommodation; the actions she has taken on the welfare of homeless children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14844/16]

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I know the Minister is only new to the job, but I wanted her to comment on what I believe is the greatest welfare scandal in the country, namely, the fact there has been a doubling of the number of children in homeless accommodation, as well as a doubling of the number of adults. There is no greater task ahead of the Minister than resolving this issue, and I would like to hear how she...

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister rightly mentioned the cases where no other accommodation could be found and children had to be put into adult hostels, sleeping on blow-up beds. It is an absolute scandal in an EU state. There are 2,121 homeless children, and the figures have doubled. I have seen in Dublin West, where we have a homelessness crisis, that there are serious knock-on impacts on children from...

Other Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am on the Committee on Housing and Homelessness and I have just taken a break to ask this question. One of the contributions to the committee came from SONAS housing association which reported that women and children are choosing to stay in violent homes rather than go into homelessness. The health of children and women is being jeopardised because of this situation. The Minister took...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the child protection and welfare issues where the lack of availability of alternative housing is adding to the difficulties faced by children in households where there is domestic violence; the action she has taken on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14845/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (9 Jun 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on giving recognition to Traveller ethnicity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15085/16]