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Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I send my solidarity to all the people affected by the flooding in the last two months, both farmers and townspeople. I visited Athlone at the request of the Anti-Austerity Alliance branch in the area and of Dom Parker, a representative there, and I visited the homes of some of the people affected. One woman I met, Veronica, was out of her home in 2009 as well. She was fighting to...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very strange that the Government would award this to companies that were under investigation in the United Kingdom. There was no investigation until whistleblowers came forward from within those companies to back up the stories of disabled and unemployed people who were knocked off the dole and forced into jobs that they could not do. There have been countless cases in Britain of...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Not yet.

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not know why the Tánaiste is not answering the questions. She is whispering everything into the ear of the Minister of State.

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: She is choosing not to answer

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the progress made in the implementation of the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1203/16]

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The question asks how JobPath, another of the so-called labour activation measures that have become the stock in trade of the Government, is progressing. Under this scheme, work done previously by FÁS is being outsourced to two large multinational companies, which will bully and harass people on the dole to ensure they accept work of any kind. The companies to which the Department...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is unbelievable that the Labour Party has privatised and outsourced a function that was being carried out by FÁS. The reason given for doing so is that a recruitment embargo has been in place in recent years. It is laughable that the Department charged with creating employment cannot create jobs in the public sector. The companies to which the Department awarded the contracts,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: None of it is working.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On rent controls-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: They have been raised with the Minister but they were fobbed off to her local councillor.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State is saying that the family members who are here today, and who have an increase in their rent from €900 to €1,300, can go to the CWO to get the increase. If they do not get that increase, will the Minister join me in advising these family members to break the law to keep a roof over their heads and to refuse to remain in that property? That is the only...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have two more, which I will send on to the Minister of State. Even if those advertisements did not exist people would be given a telephone interview and would be refused for having rent allowance on that basis. I wish to return to the issue of rent, including those who are not on rent supplement. There is another property, an apartment block, in the Tánaiste's constituency where...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to assist persons presented with massive rent increases by landlords, particularly those in receipt of rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1248/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I ask the Tánaiste to tell me what she has done to deal with the major problem of rent increases, particularly as they affect people on rent supplement, for which the Tánaiste is directly responsible, but also more generally. The number of families that have fallen into poverty or homelessness is continuing to increase on the Tánaiste's watch. I would like to mention a number...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review the impact that cuts to the one-parent family payment have had on recipients and their families. [1205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Administration (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the administration costs for the implementation of the water conservation grant. [1204/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the assistance provided to those whose homes and other properties were flooded in past number of weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1101/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to reduce economic inequality for Social Protection recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (13 Jan 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in Limerick by city and by county in receipt of disability allowance. [46705/15]