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- 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...
- Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: They are not creating any; that is the problem.
- Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a detailed report on the Action Plan for Jobs 2014. [44356/14]
- Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (25 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister provide a detailed report on the Action Plan for Jobs, where the jobs have been created and how funding for job creation is being provided?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Expenditure (25 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the proportion of his Department's budget used on financial support to businesses, including EGE grants, subsidies and any other forms of financial support, either directly or via agencies under his remit. [44355/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (25 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the work being done by her Department to find alternative course places for students affected by the closure of English language schools as a result of their courses no longer being approved by her Department. [43829/14]
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: What would the Labour Party have?
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: He is quoting James Connolly.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister has some neck.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The shouter is back. I am glad to see him taking an interest. Full-cost recovery is written into the memorandum that was agreed between the troika and Fianna Fáil in government. That is the overall aim down the line. I am not sure how the paymasters in the troika and the European Union will take to what the Government has done today, given that it has not provided enough food to...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Yet the conservation argument has gone out the window, or fallen off the back of Rodney's truck. Does the Government intend to store the water meters along with the e-voting machines? What is the point in anybody accepting a water meter when it will not be needed for four years? Why would a person do that? The question now is whether this trickery will work. Will the discounted goods be...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: I wonder whether the Cabinet has been watching reruns of "Only Fools and Horses". Today's attempt to sell dodgy goods at a discount is reminiscent of Trotter's Independent Trading. I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy Paudie Coffey, is familiar with the series. In the Christmas episode in 1992 Del Boy convinced Rodney that they would put tap water into bottles and sell them as "Peckham...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It was a sit-down protest.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. There are people sleeping in their cars every night and the Deputy did nothing about it.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Tell the people of Tallaght-----