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- Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is at a time when gardaí are being used to protect private water metering companies and Irish Water. Communities see that resources are available at the drop of a hat for that but not to protect them when they are in danger from breaches of barring orders and so on. I ask the Minister to tell the House why she is maintaining a barrier in the way of GSOC which prevents it...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Does the Tánaiste agree that this cut is one of a list of many, that it is now part of a pattern of broken promises to women, in particular, who make up the majority of single parents? She has slashed child benefit, rent supplement and now she is forcing parents with children over seven onto jobseeker's allowance. It will mean cuts of €57 to €86 a week for people who do...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: -----not to have any choice about being able to bring up children in lone parent situations.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Does the Tánaiste ever wonder why she got the reception she did in Jobstown? Does she ever wonder why people sat in front of her car? The reason they did so is that it is one of the most deprived areas of the country and she is seen by people as the Marie Antoinette of this Government.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The one difference between her and Marie Antoinette is that Marie Antoinette did not make any promises. She was not elected on a platform of not cutting child benefit and of being in favour of women's rights. The Tánaiste has broken every single promise to families in this country.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: In particular, she has stuck the knife into the backs of lone parents with this cut. Then she wonders why people around the country are angry and are not throwing red carpets under her feet. She has reduced people to going to soup kitchens. The biggest single group going to soup kitchens is single parents.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Would the Tánaiste accept that all this is being done in the interest of making cuts to meet targets set by the troika, the EU, the IMF and the ECB in aid of the bondholders? That is why she is getting the reception she is getting in communities. She can expect much more of it if she keeps this up.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: He was not. People do not like the Tánaiste.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste slurred them.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste slurred them.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: They did not want the Tánaiste there in the first place.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Here we go. Listen to the violins. The Tánaiste does not come from a working class background. She should stop lecturing us.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. The Tánaiste should answer them.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to transfer single parents who are carers from receipt of the full one-parent family payment and half carer's allowance to full carer's allowance once their youngest children reach the age of seven years. [4966/15]
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Tánaiste reverse the cuts for single parents whose children are over seven years of age or acknowledge that the promise she made in 2012 to introduce such measures only if Scandinavian-style child care services were available has been broken? Will she acknowledge that the cuts will increase poverty among lone parents, 63% of whom are living in deprivation? Does she believe...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I watched it.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she or her Department, in view of the homelessness crisis, have given consideration to the raising of rent supplement levels; her plans for legislation to prevent landlords from being able to refuse to accept rent allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4967/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (4 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance her views on ending the artist tax exemption for artists who are already in receipt of large incomes and funding. [46868/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the extension of the artist tax exemption to non-resident artists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47011/14]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Yet again the Taoiseach failed to answer my central question on whether he is happy with the registration figures. I will take his reply as a "No". It is obvious that if people do not register, even though the Government is giving them €100 to do so, they are unlikely to pay the water charges in April. I was offering him a chance to save his own skin by retreating from this abysmal...