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- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It does not.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There is nothing against that in the Constitution.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: You allowed the Taoiseach say something completely wrong last week and he did not have to correct it.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is that the Taoiseach correcting the record?
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Now you know what it is like for us.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Can the Taoiseach tell the House when the Minister for Education and Skills will introduce the Bill on school patronage that he spoke about? He must agree that the expectation and demand among a growing number of people is for equality in education, and one would have thought that the priority of the Minister would be to outlaw discrimination against children on the basis of their religion....
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am concluding, a Cheann Comhairle. Other schools will become more Catholic, but what we could see is schools not being available to those who have no faith. I ask the Taoiseach to reconsider going down this road and allow for the fact that there is now huge diversity in this country. He should move with the times.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the cost of accommodation for students; the steps he will take in the coming months for the 2016-17 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14746/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide assistance to the Dublin students union in the National University of Ireland in its proposed publicity campaign related to rent-a-room accommodation. [14745/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will instruct his officials to clearly include the post office network as an option for payments from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14811/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 356. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a report from the ambassador to Brazil regarding the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a group of 30 or more men that has sparked protests against sexual violence against women in Brazil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14548/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Disputes (8 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 677. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the decision by staff at Oberstown youth detention centre to proceed with industrial action on 31 May 2016. [14585/16]
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I welcome that the Minister now acknowledges this is an emergency. It is a word I found it difficult to get the previous Government to say and that has not helped in preventing this tsunami of homelessness from developing. Before I ask the Minister about the housing targets and how he envisages that issue being resolved, does he agree with me that if this is an emergency, the first thing we...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: NAMA will not go beyond 10%. Will the Minister issue it with some new order to go beyond it?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There are two NAMA estates in my constituency. That is how I know.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It will only be 10% unless the Minister makes it otherwise.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not a fact, actually.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not a fact.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: They did not refuse thousands in Dublin.