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Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: No, he never thought he was. He is a posh boy.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Last week on Leaders' Questions I asked the Taoiseach if he agreed that the housing crisis was the most pressing issue in the country right now and to declare a housing emergency. This week I would like to put the same questions to the Labour Party because the Taoiseach did not declare a housing emergency but people might expect a different response from the Labour Party. I was somewhat...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: That is for three years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the consultation paper 88 on credit unions from the Central Bank of Ireland . [34964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the new restrictions contained in the consultation paper 88 on credit unions from the Central Bank of Ireland will be detrimental to the credit union movement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34965/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement regulations that will give effect to the consultation paper 88 on credit unions from the Central Bank of Ireland. [34966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on altering the deposit interest retention tax rate according to the level of interest paid in order that persons with modest savings are not taxed at the same rate as those with a considerable income from interest payments. [35030/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide intensive dementia-specific care to all local health offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35024/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 159. To ask the Minister for Health his views on delivering a dementia adviser service. [35025/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a dementia case worker in each local health office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35026/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 161. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing funding to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. [35027/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make provision for the write-down of non-principal private residence charge debt in cases of particular hardship, where the owners are not landlords or gaining an income from a second home, and have not paid the charge by omission rather than through deliberate evasion. [35031/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there have been any write-downs of the non-principal private residence charge late payment penalties. [35032/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on his meeting with chief executive officers of the local authorities, regarding the urgent need for local authority accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35033/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the options open to a person (details supplied) who is currently homeless to restore her weekly income, given the successive cuts to the lone parent payment imposed by her Department. [34876/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the options open to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 to restore a weekly income given the cuts to the lone-parent payment in July 2015 and the impact this has had on this person's financial situation. [34877/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Seanad Elections (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of registered post for ballot papers in the cultural and educational panel by-election to Seanad Éireann in 2014. [34792/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Seanad Elections (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of registered post for ballot papers in the National University of Ireland and University of Dublin constituencies in the general election to Seanad Éireann in 2011. [34793/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seanad Reform (7 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the by-election process for Seanad Éireann, whereby only Members of the Oireachtas have a vote. [34794/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Administration (6 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What this points up is the need for a total change in planning in this country. Every community that I have ever been involved with has had to campaign, lobby, hold public meetings and get petitions to get a school. We need to end this fiasco once and for all. Will the Minister commit to amending section 4 of the Planning Act, which does not state that schools are a necessary part of a...