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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Expenditure (27 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 515. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate of the number of pyrite damaged houses which will be remediated using the funds provided by the taxpayer in the last and current budget; the additional funds that will be made available to remediate houses damaged by pyrite heave; and his views on the surplus of €25 million declared...
- Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I will make a few brief points on the Bill. Having been introduced for traffic management purposes, clamping has morphed into a major revenue raising exercise by private companies. This approach should be outlawed. Clamping for traffic management purposes is one thing but its use as a means of extorting money from drivers is unacceptable. It is obscene that people returning from a...
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask the Tánaiste specifically about forthcoming referendums and legislation. Two referendums have been announced, one on marriage equality and the other on the age limit to stand in presidential elections. Amazingly, however, there has been no announcement on the repeal of the eighth amendment. Is this also the view of the Labour Party because in the House last week the...
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It has been 30 years.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste is blustering.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is amazing the way the Tánaiste-----
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: What has this to do with the Order of Business?
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, I had my hand up last Thursday.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It is amazing, when the thrust of my question was about rent allowance and rent supplement, that the Tánaiste failed to mention those words even once in her reply. These are issues over which her Department has control. She is the person in charge of rent supplement and imposing rent limits, which are adding to the homeless crisis. She did not answer my question but I hope the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I can give her the figures. The situation was better under Fianna Fáil than under the current Government.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: This Government allowed fewer than 300 houses to be built last year, while allowing 500 council houses to be sold off. Council housing stock has actually decreased under the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: If the Tánaiste is really confident about her figures, she might table a debate so that she and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government can show us where the houses are being built.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Tánaiste answer my question on rent allowance?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: What is the Tánaiste talking about?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: My question was on rent supplement.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: What about rent supplement?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, can I get an answer to my question?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: I start by sending the full support of the Anti-Austerity Alliance to the secondary school teachers today. I do not feel I have any choice but to raise with the Tánaiste the disaster of the housing crisis. All the signs are that the Government's housing strategy is a bumbling disaster. Even if its myriad plans ever emerge, it will take years for houses to actually be built. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Terrorism Measures (22 Jan 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the events in Paris, if measures are being considered by his Department to restrict the rights of Irish citizens or residents, in particular the holding of passports, visas and freedom to travel; and if he will report on consultations with other governments on these matters. [2662/15]