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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (13 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to report on all meetings and contacts he and his officials have had with counterparts in other European Union member states regarding the export of greyhounds to the Macau Special Administrative Region, China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21136/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Start Programme (13 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene to ensure that the access and inclusion model is made available to children in early start places in schools, who are not part of the early childhood and care education scheme; and if she will intervene in this matter for a child in Dublin West (details supplied). [21472/16]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister sure they will be allowed to?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Is anyone on the commission against water charges?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There were lifejackets being given out over there.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: A couple of issues came up in the course of the debate, for example, from some of my colleagues from rural areas. I want to make this clear: I believe there should be equality in respect of the provision of water. The anti-water charges movement has always made that clear. Obviously, for people living in an isolated area, it will cost far more to connect to the water system and...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There are swings and roundabouts when it comes to the city. Deputy Fitzmaurice may wish to move to Dublin and pay the rents that people are paying in Dublin. People are paying €1,400 for a three-bed house.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: My point is that we should not be dividing ordinary people from rural or urban areas. I do not see how it makes anyone in a rural area feel better if everyone is paying €500 for water charges and they are paying for it. That is the point.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The last issue relates to a point Deputy Cowen made about people sitting on their hands. For the past three years, we have not been sitting on our hands. We have been out doing the backbreaking work of organising and building the anti-water charges campaign. It did not simply spring out of nowhere. There were local meetings throughout the country. They were well attended and a campaign...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Joe O'Toole told us the outcome.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Hear, hear.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: How was it paid for up to now?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There is a team of so-called experts who, as my colleague, Deputy Paul Murphy, has already said, have a set, pre-ordered agenda of being in favour of charging ordinary people for water. It is clear how the water committee the Government is going to set up in the Dáil will go. It will be able to discuss nothing except what the Minister wants it to discuss. It cannot discuss water...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the "Endapendents" who are backing them up on this one can try all the manoeuvres they like. The commission is clearly weighted with people from the water industry. The second threat being used, and it seems to be the Labour Party taking up the cudgels on this one, is the EU Commission. It is as clear as day that this country has never had an established...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is called a metaphor. The Deputy might want to listen. When the engine got very cold, one pulled the choke to allow more petrol into it, but often flooded the engine instead. I do not envy the Minister and his new Government in trying to reintroduce water charges after nine months. There is a lot of emphasis on mental health in the programme for Government. It should let this issue...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This charade is an expensive and bureaucratic way to deal with things. We all know that no matter what the Government comes up with, people have decided that they are not paying and that water charges are finished. On 17 September, there will be another protest. I do not know how big it will be. I doubt it will be as large as the ones which took place in October 2014. I warn the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: They were ruled out of order before the committee.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Earlier the Acting Chairman mentioned filibustering, but I do not think it is humanly or mathematically possible to do so if there is only one amendment to be dealt with on the floor of the Dáil.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Far from it, some of us have other responsibilities to which we would like to attend and while it may be fun to watch the lads shouting slogans across the floor at each other, this is a serious political issue, as Members know because it was the one that dominated the discussions on Government formation in the weeks they took place. It is obviously a key issue for the Anti-Austerity...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: How can he be the next speaker?