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Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: As I said earlier, one would think Fine Gael would be keeping Denis O'Brien at arm's length given the previous connections.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very hard to speak without naming names.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Following on from The Taoiseach's controversial ringing of the bell at the New York Stock Exchange on 19 March 2012-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste also attended that conference, rather than keeping a million miles away. On 28 March 2012, she said this in the Dáil, "It is perhaps time for the Government to reflect on how it should in future interact with people against whom adverse findings have been made by tribunals [...] We live in a Republic and the representation of each citizen should be what counts rather...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----a company that is run by the richest man in Ireland, a media magnate and a tax exile, who has no intention of paying his taxes. He owns the company that is enforcing a water tax on millions of people. That this man should gain from this deal is an outrage.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is my final sentence. We have seen this week a Deputy arrested, we have seen Deputy Paul Murphy arrested-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and we have seen the whistleblower John Wilson arrested.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: If this is not Kafkaesque, I do not know what is. I repeat that people sitting out there, worried about the toxic entity of Irish Water, are totally justified in joining the inevitable mass boycott of these bills.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste should not have met Denis O'Brien.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: He was investigated by a tribunal.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Tánaiste have any idea how people lying on trolleys or looking at water charge bills on mats feel as they hear the revelations about the sale of Siteserv? The Tánaiste does herself and her party no favours by the swaggering attitude she has displayed over the past half an hour. Can she try to focus on answering some of the questions put by the Opposition? The last time I...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: On the issue of Siteserv, if the Tánaiste's baying hounds can stop shouting over Deputies speaking, can she answer these questions? Richard Woodhouse, an alleged acquaintance of Denis O'Brien-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: These are just facts. He was also the head of specialised asset recovery at IBRC and oversaw Denis O'Brien's borrowings with IBRC. Brian Harvey, the CEO of Siteserv, received a personal lump sum of €800,000 as a result of the sale to Millington.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: These are facts. Siteserv chairman, Hugh Cooney, was also involved in the NTMA, Enterprise Ireland and was reportedly on an American trip with the Taoiseach and Denis O'Brien.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Lawyers, Arthur Cox, represented both O'Brien and IBRC. Why was there no independent legal representation for the Irish taxpayer? The sale was processed by people with many connections to Siteserv in Davy and KPMG. The big question is why other bidders, making much larger offers, were not even considered. The only tender that included payments to directors was the Millington tender. If...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is she satisfied the Minister for Finance has been telling two different stories? He told one story under previous questioning by Deputies that everything was okay and the deal was the best possible one but now we find out, through freedom of information courtesy of Deputy Catherine Murphy, that everything was not okay and the civil servants were not happy.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is it not incredible that during the winding down of the toxic entity, Anglo, any deal worth this amount of money could be kept away from elected representatives and the Minister for Finance? Does the Tánaiste agree that people looking at their water charge bills are totally justified in not paying them when they hear about the carry on and the people who will be enriched if water...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is unbelievable.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he supports water charges being based on metered use after 2019; his views on the Commission for Energy Regulation increasing the water charging rate after the cap ends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15776/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (23 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 100. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 15 April 2015, the training courses the military personnel of other states received here from the Defence Forces in the years 2011 to 2014, that is Israel, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Chad,...