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Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It was not a study of them and did not actually conclude that there was no impact on women. In fact, it concluded that there was an impact on women who were in a relationship. The study to which I would like to refer the Tánaiste - and I am sure she is not contradicting it as it is well known - is by the National Women's Council. It concluded that equality had been cast aside during...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am on a worker's wage and the Deputy is not. Regarding the eight amendment, can the Tánaiste please respond to me? In the past, people would have expected that the Labour Party, at least on social issues if nothing else, would garner something from a coalition of popular government.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Why will the Tánaiste not hold a referendum this year and not at some stage in the future? We all know Labour will not be in the next Government so it is a useless promise. Do it now and give women the rights they deserve.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Do it now.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste is after cutting grants to carers.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This Sunday, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. Is the Tánaiste in any way embarrassed that, after four years of her Government’s tenure, not only has she not lifted a finger in key areas of women's rights crying out for vindication, but now her austerity policies are causing immense suffering for women on low and middle incomes, especially for women dependent on...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste's rent allowance cuts are making hundreds of women homeless each week. Last year, on International Women’s Day, she made a speech saying we need more women leaders in all areas of life and that far too few women are in the room when crucial decisions are made. Why, when the Tánaiste is in the room and as the most powerful woman in politics in this country, are...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I know where I will be spending International Women’s Day. I will be at a rally at the Spire organised by the ROSA group, Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity and Real-Productive Health. Where will the Tánaiste be? Two years ago, she spent International Women’s Day with Christine Lagarde, the well-heeled head of the IMF, which has plunged...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Tánaiste agree it is a far cry from the Labour movement tradition which started International Women’s Day? It was begun by garment workers in 1909 in the US-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and carried on by German socialists. Will the Tánaiste celebrate International Women’s Day by calling off her economic war on women?

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will she hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, so badly needed by women?

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Christine Lagarde.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This would be laughable if it was not so serious. I will outline a list of the cuts the Tánaiste has introduced that would primarily fall on women. The cuts to child benefit mainly hit women. It has been cut by €10 to €130 for the first and second child and by €18 for the third child and subsequent children so a large family will be hit even more. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I asked about social welfare cuts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not know if the Tánaiste has read the report, Women, Austerity and Inequality, by Ursula Barry and Pauline Conroy, commissioned by the National Women’s Council of Ireland and TASC. I do not know what figures the Tánaiste is plucking out of the air but I will outline for her a few conclusions from this report. It concluded that equality was cast aside as a marginal...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste took away €10 the previous year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out an analysis of the impact cuts in welfare payments have had on women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9550/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Impact Assessment (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection indicate whether her Department has undertaken a gender analysis of the impact of the cuts in social welfare payments that have taken place in recent years? Has there been any study of the impact in particular on women, because it would seem that the axe is falling disproportionately on women, who tend to have responsibility for children?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: As a non-member of the committee there are one or two things that I would like to raise, possibly with a view to---

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, I will. There were many contributions on the last Stage in the House about fathers' rights and the alleged denial of access by women to fathers who have custody. There were many contributions by different Deputies about that. I think this section clarifies that a second parent can apply to the courts for enforcement and for custody. There seems to be a lot of confusion between...