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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (22 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 159. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has estimated the number of units to be bought by councils from developers, and the number to be leased under the new Part V rules, to be contained in the forthcoming Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill; the increases he is allocating to the capital and current budgets of local...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he sought at the European Council meeting in December 2014 that the issue of the detention of a person (details supplied) be raised with the Egyptian authorities. [15212/15]

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: If the Minister had listened carefully, he would have noted that is what I said. Connolly Hospital is one such example, of which I have good knowledge from talking to the managers of that hospital. They told me they could not recruit agency staff at key times such as Christmas and other times as the staff did not want to work. I do not know what the numbers are. My question relates to the...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and on 8 April there were 32 people on trolleys, which was the second highest number in the State. The Minister is certainly not looking after the health service in that area. We need a huge investment in public health-----

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----which involves taking resources from elsewhere, taxing the wealthy in society and introducing a financial transitions tax. We cannot continue to keep gutting the health service and making people pay.

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We have the hospital recruitment embargo.

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister will not create permanent jobs.

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 9. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his views on whether the recruitment embargo and the reliance on staff on temporary contracts was a major factor in the overcrowding crisis in hospitals last winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14708/15]

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am keen to ask the Minister about the impact of the public sector recruitment embargo on the health service. Information is growing that this is leading to a major sucking of resources and costs in terms of agency staff. Moreover, it appears the ban on recruitment has led to serious shortages of staff and has led directly to the bed and trolley crisis as well, because hospitals have been...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There may have been increases in recent months but staff have been gutted from the health service for six years. There has been a 10% reduction in that time. There is a relationship between the trolley and bed crisis and the embargo and downsizing in general of our health service in recent years or since 2009. It got worse in 2014 under the watch of this Government. Some 77,091 people...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Instead he is forcing them to go through a bureaucratic rigmarole. This has led to Connolly Memorial Hospital, in the Minister's constituency, having the highest number on trolleys in the State and the relevant HSE area on four occasions this week.

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the number of seizures of mifepristone and misoprostol, which had been ordered online by women, placing Ireland in the position of banning access to their bodily autonomy and forcing them to go abroad (details supplied). [14707/15]

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Government reconsider its policy on mifepristone and misoprostol which are safe pills that can be used in cases of medical abortion? I am asking this because the Customs service is seizing these drugs which have been ordered by women online through Women On Web and prescribed by doctors. In years to come, we will cringe and look back on this policy, under which we are censoring and...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Because of the position under the eighth amendment and so on, the Government has banned these pills from the country. Who are the women who are looking for them? They are our sisters, cousins, friends and neighbours. They are ordinary women who have been driven to desperation because of a crisis pregnancy. If the Government is banning abortion in this country, will the Minister of State...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I have looked at the issue in depth because women contact me regularly about it. I remind the Minister of State that those who have to resort to this measure are the poorest women: illegal immigrants and those who cannot afford to shell out €1,000 or €1,500 to travel abroad for a surgical abortion. I also reassure the Minster of State that the doctors who prescribe these pills...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Dr. Bressan makes the point that in the not-too-distant future we will look back on the shameful bans on contraception, divorce, homosexuality and movies such as "The Life of Brian". Will the Minister of State at least ask the Customs service to stop preventing people from ordering packages online? Why is she perpetuating this disgraceful ban? She will have a third chance to repeal the...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Not 31 years ago.

Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Constitution - no, I do not.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on her Department's decision not to increase rent supplement levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14063/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will implement increases in rent supplement levels combined with a policy of rent controls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14064/15]