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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Fianna Fáil is now the liberal party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Only on women's bodies?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the proposed citizens' assembly will report back to Dáil Éireann on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [10147/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I know the Taoiseach hates when this topic comes up in Parliament-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: -----because it is a very messy subject as far as he is concerned but for thousands of women throughout the country it is a key issue. The Taoiseach just listed a host of issues the citizens' assembly will look into, including everything from fixed-term Parliaments to the ageing population but let us throw in the eighth amendment as well. The best that some of the Independent Deputies, who...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The question is about the US.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Chairman indicate how it is intended that we will proceed? We will hear from two very different organisations on two different issues. Is it possible to ask questions of one and then the other?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have specific questions on the NTMA but also on this-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: All together.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is just that there are two separate sessions in this-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I have quite a few questions.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I want to tease out why a fund that was a pension reserve fund that was paid for by the public has now become the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. We are being told that it cannot really be used for social housing and I am trying to tease out, for people who watch the proceedings of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness, why that is the case. The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund,...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: My question relates to how it can be done off-balance sheet?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: On that point, when the NTMA was being established, we pointed out that there should be representatives in it of people who have been affected by the housing crisis. One can have expertise on mortgages and so forth without being a former banker. This appears to be a catch-all for putting the same people who brought the economy to a standstill and cost the State so much into key positions in...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: When the NTMA was set up, we told the Minister at the time that there should be representatives on the NTMA to advocate for people affected by the housing crisis. The whole point of the NTMA was the debt we had incurred, and the people who incurred the debt are now getting positions through money that is being invested by the NTMA, which is a little ironic.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It is getting very Jesuitical here: how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Is Mr. Palmer saying that the EU bans Ireland from spending savings, not borrowings? The Strategic Investment Fund was built up over years. We are not borrowing it. If a family needs to spend money that it has saved, it does not add to its debt. Are the EU rules so severe that we cannot even spend money...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is it not ludicrous that there is no offset for it because we have money but the EU does not allow us to spend it where it is most needed in the whole country?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: This is something the committee will have to tease out. The difficulty with such a scheme is that the rents could be very high to meet the criteria.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I know.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am well aware of what Deputy Ó Broin said. The cost would be 70% of the market rate. That is still a very high rent.