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- Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Disgraceful.
- Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: Two constituents of mine and the Minister contacted me about the Bill as they were going through this scenario. I will briefly read the details of one Castleknock family:Our family are currently suffering under the restrictions imposed on medical staff, patients, families and friends by current legislation. Our daughter and her husband were delighted to announce the news of their first baby...
- Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: With regard to amendments Nos. 13 and 18, the scandal around the Garda erupted because of the perceived relationship between the Government, the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Commissioner. Unfortunately, the Bill fails to deal with the central issue of the Commissioner and the independent power of GSOC to investigate him or her. Why would the Government impede GSOC from...
- Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: The Commissioner made statements about protests.
- Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: It was quite a political statement to make.
- 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...