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Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What projects is he talking about? If there are projects we do not know about, we would love to hear about them.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Where are they?

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is incredible that as we face the greatest housing emergency in the history of the State, the single useful measure that was introduced by the former, pro-development Fianna Fáil-Green Party regime is being amended by this Government. It is just unbelievable that the social and affordable housing quota is being reduced from 20% to 10%. When this change was originally thrown out into...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is unbelievable. What is emerging is that the vacant site levy will not help us to develop social housing. On closer scrutiny, my reading of section 23(1) is that any money received by a planning authority pursuant to section 15 should be spent by it:(a) where the vacant site comprises residential land [if there is a vacant site that is residentially zoned], on the provision of housing...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I do, as 75% of it is contingent on leasing from developers and renting. It has been said here already that this is not going to work. The fact that we are spending so long discussing the Bill is somewhat annoying, because it is not going to deal with the housing crisis. We are trying to use it as an opportunity to expose that. It lays it bare that the Government will not make it...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I wanted to hear the Minister of State's views on the amendment before speaking. I wonder why he is not willing to stitch the proposal into the Bill. Section 23(1)(a) provides that "where the vacant site comprises residential land", moneys received from the levy may be spent "on the provision of housing on residential land in the vicinity of the site". It does not, however, specify that...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I have called this an incentive because there are large incentives for developers throughout the Bill. The proposed vacant site levy, which the amendments address, will reduce the levy for developers with outstanding loans on or negative equity in their sites. Developers in NAMA, receivership or negative equity could be exempted. That is the sum total. The lands in question are needed...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am thrilled sitting listening to the developers' handbook. For too long, in this country people have had to rely on the private sector to provide housing. Obviously, everything in this Bill reeks of that. In relation to when this vacant site levy will and will not be invoked, I had an amendment ruled out. The Government is actually reducing the levy on vacant sites and while I am...

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the discontinuation of funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; the measures that have been put in place to ensure the data collection role played by the centre is maintained under the proposed funding plans in view of the fact that 80% of survivors of sexual violence do not contact a...

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask about the cuts being implemented by Tusla to Rape Crisis Network Ireland. Measures have been put in place to cut its data collection role and its funding. Bearing in mind that 80% of victims of sexual violence and rape do not contact a State body, how does the Minister envisage that Tusla, a new organisation, will be able to fulfil the role the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland...

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: If the Minister did a straw poll outside these gates and asked people whether they trusted Rape Crisis Network Ireland or Tusla, the new quango established by the Government, to serve the interests of rape victims, we all know what the answer would be. Rape Crisis Network Ireland has been doing this work for 40 years. It has been an advocate and an independent voice for rape victims from a...

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: A total of 80% of rape victims do not report their experience or seek counselling. That is four out of five rape victims. They will not go to Tusla, but they will contact rape crisis centres, at least on the phone. The information being gathered by Rape Crisis Network Ireland is very important. In Ireland, one in five girls will be sexually abused over their lifetimes, as well as one in...

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Do we not need the data?

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: They will not contact Tusla.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the ongoing opposition among the local community to the dismissal of a person at a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 5, which has resulted in a widespread boycott of the centre and demands for an annual general meeting that would allow for a new board of management to be elected, and for the person's re-instatement; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (8 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures in place for the registration of homeless persons to vote; if he has provided any guidance or direction to local authorities on this matter; his plans to inform homeless persons of their entitlements to vote, and the locations they can register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27910/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (7 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 18. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is in favour of permitting asylum seekers to work while their applications for asylum are being assessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27057/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Policy (7 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 22. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views that the financial requirements in the guidelines for the granting of family reunification visas disadvantage younger persons who have not had the same opportunity to earn sufficient income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27056/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Currency Circulation (7 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 85 to 87, inclusive, of 24 June 2015, if he will clarify that the rounding to the nearest five cent will apply only to cash payments, and that electronic payments will remain unrounded. [27358/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (7 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 444. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the greater diversity in backgrounds of Irish citizens, the steps the Passport Office has taken to better serve those applying for, and renewing, their passports. [27096/15]