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- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Today, she brazenly comes in here and continues to stand over the hounding of an entire working class community. These actions will definitely backfire. People will boycott the water charges, which is essentially what this is about. The Tánaiste is trying to demonise protestors at a key time in the battle against water charges, but this will rebound. I have no doubt that the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: What has that got to do with water charges?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is a 16 year old.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I never referred to the gardaí as "dogs". I was using a figure of speech.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: If the dawn chorus over there could stay quiet for a minute, I was using a figure of speech - not referring to the gardaí.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but the expression I used was "Call off the dogs of war on people in Jobstown". It was nothing to do with the gardaí.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: For four days in a row, there have been unprecedented Garda operations in west Tallaght. Dawn raids have taken place on 17 homes without any of the appointments made with the Anglo Irish Bank three who brought this country to financial ruin.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Ordinary men, women and, in legal terms, children have been arrested in front of their families and neighbours, including three elected representatives of the Anti-Austerity Alliance. How does it sit with the Tánaiste that complaints she made against people who protested her visit to Jobstown in November have resulted in these outrageous raids by entire squads of gardaí, trawling...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Is the Tánaiste comfortable that 14, 15, 16 and 17 year olds have been arrested? As we speak, a 15 year old is missing a day of school.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste claims she is concerned about education, but she has said nothing about the school that child is missing-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----because he or she might have taken part in a protest against the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The talk in Jobstown is that a message will be sent out soon for the first born in every family to be rounded up to please the Tánaiste. Is her wounded political vanity so precious that she needs this vindictive attempt to criminalise an entire working class community in this way? Hundreds of decent people in Jobstown and Tallaght who took part in a protest are in genuine fear that...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Why does the Tánaiste feel that she is so special? There are vulnerable women with barring orders who cannot get them enforced by gardaí, yet an entire unit in Tallaght has been doing nothing else for the past three months except investigating hours of video footage on the Tánaiste's behalf.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: For decades, Ministers and taoisigh have gone around this country and encountered hundreds of protests, had their cars impeded-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----and had verbal abuse shouted at them. I will cite two examples.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: In 2002, the then Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, visited Waterford. He claimed that his car was kicked and choice language was thrown at him. He complained in the Chamber. In 1989, Mr. Charles Haughey-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----had his car blocked by a sit-down protest of students-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----at UCD. For all their sins, neither went and called out the dogs and called on a repressive police response for the behaviour they faced.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that it takes a special-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It would seem that it takes-----