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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: That is what committee meetings are for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am a little confused on the water issue. The Minister has been confusing people about this for a number of months. Is he not proceeding with the deduction proposal that he included in his motion two weeks ago? For example, will council or social housing tenants have water charges deduced by local authorities? I expected that to be provided in the Bill because Irish Water refers to this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social homes targeted to be built, in which local authority areas and the timeframe, under the Government's housing strategy. [45852/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce measures that will allow the deduction of water charges fees from council housing tenants who refuse to pay their Irish Water bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45853/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to address the anomaly in the case of a secondary school teacher (details supplied) in Dublin 15 who attained a postgraduate diploma in education, qualified as a teacher and registered with the Teaching Council in 2011 but was placed on post-2012 pay scales as they had to complete some extra modules relating to their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the provision of primary school places in Ashtown, Castleknock area, Dublin 15. [46197/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (2 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the creation of a local centralised school allocation system in Dublin 15 to deal with the anomalies between schools' waiting lists; and her plans tackle the issue. [46198/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has met representatives of the locked out bricklayers and builders at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45362/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the number of secondary school places in Dublin 15; and her plans to create more places to resolve the shortage that students and their families are faced with. [45363/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the maximum 80% LTV for mortgage loans; the measures he will implement to assist prospective home owners that are unable to save an adequate amount in view of the rise in house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45601/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gender Balance (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the real social dynamics group and their attitudes towards women; and her views on the impact of such attitudes towards gender equality. [45582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority-owned homes vacant at present; and if he will provide in tabular form the figures by local authority area and the reasons for the vacancy. [45586/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the work under way to make vacant local authority-owned homes available for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45587/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (27 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the process of pyrite remediation is expected to commence in respect of a property (details supplied) in County Dublin. [45588/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Is that for all of them? Will the Minister differentiate between people who are already very well off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I will start with the 1916 commemorations. I was not a Deputy at the time, but would the Minister agree that the centenary of 1913, for example, seemed to be virtually ignored by the State and the Government in terms of working-class history in this city? Will the role of James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army, for example, or the international context of 1916 be featured? The latter is...

Other Questions: Job Creation Targets (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Give us the figures now.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am still none the wiser as to exactly what sectors these jobs are in, but I have noted the vast bulk of the Department's budget of €755 million for 2014 consists of grants, subsidies and other incentives to corporations. It is what is known as corporate welfare, where the State uses taxes collected from workers, and savings through cuts to public spending, to give handouts and tax...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister of State in the Labour Party? I am not too sure any more.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It used to be Labour Party policy to use public investment to create jobs, either directly in public services or elsewhere, but now it seems to go along with the ideology of doling out vast sums of money to small and medium enterprises and multinationals to try to get them to create jobs. TASC economist, Paul Sweeney, described the level of corporate welfare in Ireland as a very considerable...