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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the newspaper report (details supplied) which indicated that wealthier areas are accessing more resource teaching than poorer areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33974/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for primary school education; if she has any plans to restore teachers' pay and conditions, including newly qualified teachers; to reduce class sizes to 20 pupils; to reverse cuts to the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme; to reverse cuts to special needs education; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the lack of diversity of school patronage in areas of high multicultural populations, such as west Dublin at both primary and secondary levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33976/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (1 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the repair work completed during the recent filming on Sceilig Mhicíl in County Kerry. [33824/15]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: One would expect nothing less. This has been raised umpteen times before.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 36:In page 6, lines 30 and 31, after “subsection (2)(d)” to insert “, however they may not vary or revise downwards any targets contained in the mitigation plan”. This amendment provides that when submitting their departmental submissions to the mitigation plan, individual Ministers may not vary or revise downwards the emission targets.The...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Build on State land.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: They should call a national emergency.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: If the Taoiseach knows of local authorities which are sitting on money he has given to them for housing-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----he should sack the managers of those authorities. He knows that is not true. If any councils had the funding to build social houses - which they have done before - they would do it. The Taoiseach says that NAMA's remit is to return money to the taxpayer. It is not - NAMA's remit is to return money to the banks. While it expects to recoup €1 billion for the taxpayer, it...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Would the Taoiseach agree that the €1.8 billion from the sale of Dundrum and other shopping centres yesterday could build 15,000 to 18,000 homes? Instead, what he is promising the people in the Visitors Gallery is modular homes - portakabins - which they know will become a permanent fixture, just like the hotels which he told them were only for short-term use. They have been in them...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We took part in the occupation of a NAMA house last week and it seems that is the only thing the Taoiseach knows - protest - because he is not listening to the rational arguments of people here today.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I asked the Taoiseach to consider families.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Taoiseach agree there is no more pressing issue in this country than the housing crisis? Will he and the Government now come out with their hands up and declare it a national emergency? If he does not make that simple admission, the type of emergency measures we need will never be taken. There are homeless women and men in the Visitors Gallery today who have come in hope that the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: In 1975, the last housing emergency, some 8,794 local authority homes were built. Why, therefore, in the middle of a housing crisis did the Taoiseach see fit to reduce the social housing obligation on private developers, from 20% to 10%? Why, in the middle of a housing and homeless crisis, is he allowing NAMA to sell off hoards of property at a massive discount? Why is he allowing the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: He will leave some legacy.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out a review of the current level of rent supplement and the impact the reduction of same has had on homelessness. [33038/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the cut to rent supplement in view of the current housing and homelessness crisis. [33037/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commission for Public Service Appointments (30 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review local authority membership of the Commission for Public Service Appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33479/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Sep 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered putting measures in place in the budget to ensure that developers who have exited the National Asset Management Agency without repaying their debts will not benefit from property-related tax breaks and write-offs in development levies owed to the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33287/15]