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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 431. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 of 22 September 2015, if he has received a report on the case of the child in the Dublin 15 area; and when he will be in a position to revert to this Deputy in this case [36524/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to reduce the class sizes in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36123/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 which was built in the 1950s and requires maintenance work and an end to the use of pre-fabricated buildings. [36124/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (14 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the right of parents in the Dublin West and south Meath areas to have their children educated through the medium of the Irish language at secondary level. [35877/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (14 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that there are three Gaelscoileanna in the Dublin West and south Meath areas, and given the willingness of 454 students from these areas to enrol in a second level Gaelcholáiste from 2017, her views on the application of a school (details supplied) to be established as a second level school; and if she will make a statement on the...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: In fact, what the Government has done is introduce half-----

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I will just finish on this point, a Cheann Comhairle.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I refer to the halving of the corporation tax rate with a knowledge development box, which could easily be exploited and result in a continuation of Ireland's tax haven status.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: A Cheann Comhairle, I am just finishing a sentence.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is ridiculous.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The myth promulgated before this budget was that it was somehow a give-away one but it is far from it. The people who have been hammered by the past eight years of austerity have gained little or nothing from today's budget. I refer to the low-paid, women and those who have lost their jobs. The Minister's booklet gave the example of someone on €20,000 who will gain €4 a week...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is not enough.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What about houses?

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What a disgrace. Commercial houses - brilliant.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if commercial rates are to be paid to local authorities by religious and community organisations that use units in business campuses. [35482/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service Provision (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 230. 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; the life of schools; his plans to address these matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35589/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (13 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1427 of 22 September 2015, the progress on the regulations for a tenant purchase scheme; and if there is a likely time frame for when such regulations will be made. [35537/15]

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We have had all this talk for four and a half years. It is too late for the families who are suffering. It is four and a half years too late for the Labour Party to turn its attention to this issue. The Minister spoke of a lack of supply. To reiterate the point on house building, 8,794 council houses were built in this country in 1975. I have just told the Minister that this year 500...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Perhaps Deputy Lawlor might not make a show of himself by shouting over what I have to say.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The fact the Labour Party has left this to weeks, potentially, or even months before a general election is a serious error. This is permeating through working-class and even middle-income communities. Many people are stuck paying €1,700 or €1,800 in rent each month. The Labour Party has made a serious error. Will the Minister please answer this: if he believes it is an...