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- 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...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Where did that happen?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Government is creating them.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, could not have done better than that. It is an absolute lie and an evasion of the questions as usual. With homeless people sitting in the Gallery, the Minister should be ashamed of himself in not taking this matter seriously.
- 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]