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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It was the building workers who built the units, actually.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Peter McVerry Trust (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I believe the building workers built them.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Focus Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the delegates. I will take up the point on migrants because one in four people in the constituency I represent was born outside Ireland. Ours is the most diverse constituency. I wager that it has the highest level of homelessness in the country. I have been informed the Threshold helpline is mainly rung by people in the west and north Dublin, but we also have the figures for...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Focus Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: They are important questions.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Simon Communities of Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The delegation mentioned in its recommendations that the Government should be much more ambitious regarding the number of social houses it is to build. I welcome the statement that the Government should be aiming to build 50,000 social houses. Obviously, that is the focus of many homelessness agencies. I wish to query a number of points in the submissions. The delegates called for a...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Simon Communities of Ireland (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Recently, local authorities have been sidelined by the approved housing bodies because the Government is trying to get everything off balance sheet. The local authority in my area has had to hand over housing left, right and centre to approved housing bodies. It has hardly built anything for five years in Blanchardstown. I believe nothing has been built by the local authority in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the investment of the strategic investment fund in fossil fuels and other industries that have a harmful impact on climate change and the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12298/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 376 of 17 May 2016, if he will repeal subsection 9 of section 3A of the Water Services Act 2014 to enable council tenants to participate under the tenant purchase scheme, given the commitment to suspend water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12323/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with animal rights campaigners (details supplied) who will be in Ireland in early June 2016 and who have requested a meeting to discuss the export trade of greyhounds to the Macau Special Administrative Region in China. [12335/16]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: There are many disturbing aspects to the O'Higgins report, such as the fact that the documents were not passed over for many months to the commission. We have not heard much comment about that. There was clear bullying and victimisation of Sergeant Maurice McCabe when he exposed poor investigation and wrongdoing. There was clearly a culture within that district, emanating from the top, as...

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister of State get a grip on reality? This is a labour activation scheme. It is not an early intervention scheme with people who are unable to work. It is an adult scheme. My question, which comes from the Disability Federation of Ireland which held a press conference this morning, relates to who will carry out the assessments regarding whether or not someone is fit to work....

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This scheme has not yet been raised in the Dáil.

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: In the form of the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, we have a case of the fox in charge of the chicken coop in terms of the social welfare budget-----

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: -----but I hope that the new Minister of State for disability issues will not sit by and let disabled people be forced into schemes for which they are not fit or able.

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This is simply an activation measure. The Minister cited one disability organisation that he met with in respect of it. I think he is covering his tracks.

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister of State answer the question as to who will carry out the tests?

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister of State answer the two questions I asked?

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: We get one minute to ask questions. Can they at least be answered? The Minister did not answer on who will carry out the assessments. He will not even answer the question. The Ceann Comhairle is meant to make him answer the question.

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State did not answer one of the questions. Who will carry out the assessments?

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (25 May 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The procedure is that questions are answered.