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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (8 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 456. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the initial two months of the passport card, if there have been any reports of it not being accepted at any locations in Europe, to outline what communications have been made with the various border authorities in Europe, if he is aware that it is not listed on the European Council's public register of travel and identity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (3 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 12. To ask the Minister for Health his views on waiting lists for outpatients and inpatients to see specialists, and the performance of accident and emergency departments in the past five years. [42982/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 25. To ask the Minister for Health his views on nurses in emergency departments voting by 92% in favour of strike action as a stand against continuing overcrowding, inadequate staffing and the ongoing compromising of patient care. [42981/15]

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It would not.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Are atheist schools in place?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State is not speaking to this amendment.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State is speaking about a different amendment.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: That made no sense whatsoever.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State should speak to the amendment.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Does he not have to speak to the amendment?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: He is not. He is speaking to a different amendment, not the one that has been moved.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Everyone has personal experience.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: To which amendment does this refer? This seems like an attempt to run down the clock and prevent us from calling a division on the amendment.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy is bullying-----

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I propose amendment No. 8 on behalf of the Anti-Austerity Alliance. It calls for the deletion of subsection (3)(c) which allows discrimination in admissions policy in schools on the grounds of religion. There is obviously a massive interest among Deputies in this topic and it is unfortunate that this debate will be guillotined at 9 p.m. We will not even get past dealing with one amendment,...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 4 to Seanad amendment No. 53:In section 19, to delete subsection (2).

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 50:In paragraph (d), after “declaration” to insert “referred to in section 35 (as amended by the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015)”.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 51:In section 17, in the inserted subsection (8), in the sixth line after “dwelling” to insert the following “and shall also include evidence of that intention to sell, such as correspondence with an estate agent or a prospective buyer or buyers, and shall also include evidence that were the property not to be sold, the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: On the issue of what obligation should be placed on landlords to prove they are selling the property and that it genuinely is the reason they need to evict someone, the Minister of State is correct to note it is more difficult to evict somebody on the basis of a rent increase but many landlords are resorting to outright harassment of tenants. I have spoken to many families who have been...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to speak on our amendments, amendments Nos. 1 and 2 to Seanad amendment No. 51. They concern the statutory declaration, which is a critical issue for tenants. The commonest reason for people becoming homeless - the people with whom I speak - is not rent increases because landlords know that it is more difficult to evict somebody on the basis of a rent increase now. In many cases,...