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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (22 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding for the completion of building works for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [37036/15]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy must not have seen the water charge demonstrations.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act was misnamed, because the financial emergency measures were not in the public interest but in the bondholders' interest. With undue haste, the legislation was rammed through the Dáil in 2013 in a particular effort to pressure and blackmail public sector workers who were gearing up to resist the attacks from the Government. It...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State said "court backlog". That is what I was referring to.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly, that is what I said.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State need not be patronising when answering. Often she herself has not been here for entire debates. I am sure she will understand that the debate resumed and I came down as soon it did. I was taking up the point about a court backlog which would require resources being put into the courts. We are all aware that there are considerable backlogs in the courts. That is...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I support the amendments and I will speak on the general issue of wards of court and the legislation as a whole. It is not good enough to reject an amendment because it might create a backlog in the courts.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is what the Minister said. We must look at putting resources in place to protect people's civil liberties. We know the wards of court system was widely abused in the past in order to deny people the right to make decisions because they simply did not fit with the social milieu of the time. I am not saying that is the case today, as society has moved on, but there could well be cases in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has analysed the impact homelessness has on school attendance, the education of pupils and the life of schools; his plans to address these matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36427/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Persons Data (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of homeless children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36428/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has conducted an analysis recently on the life expectancy of members of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36701/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to ensure that counselling and psychotherapy services are accessible and affordable to all who need to avail of them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36702/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (21 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that was spent on outpatient counselling and psychotherapy services by the Health Service Executive in each of the past five years. [36703/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Economic Management Council took place; and when the next one is scheduled for. [31782/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Communications Surveillance (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for interceptions that have been made under the Interception of Postal and Telecommunications (Regulations) Act 1994 from September 2014 to date in 2015; and the number of these that were granted. [35288/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if, in order to avoid a family being made homeless (details supplied) in Dublin 15, she will exercise discretion and not reject the application for rent supplement on the grounds that the parent voluntarily gave up employment when the parent is on career leave for child care reasons [36374/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 361. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the contact her Department has with An Garda Síochána regarding the process in place for payment of and appeal of speeding fines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36544/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a mechanism exists to deal with an appeal of a speeding fine and penalty points, where after paying a fine the driver notices that there was an error by An Garda Síochána (details supplied). [36545/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 404. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department can confirm that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 was resident in the State for the purposes of being eligible to play for the Irish national soccer team. [36046/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 425. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the educational welfare of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [36328/15]