Results 6,301-6,320 of 6,651 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sure they will. They normally do.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach has not heard what people said. They said they would not pay anything.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (19 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department has taken to resolve the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently out of work due to the Health Service Executive's decision to withdraw their indemnity cover. [44483/14]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Did the Taoiseach report it?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: It is to be spent over four years up to 2018.
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: While I welcome any measure that will ameliorate the misery and suffering of people living in direct provision centres, does the Minister not agree it is time to close down these hell holes in which adults must live on €19 per week and children on €9.60 per week? There is no way to improve the experience of the residents of direct provision centres. We must recognise that...
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister stated that, unlike other countries, Ireland does not detain asylum seekers. How does one describe a system in which people are not allowed to work or to have visitors and must eat and be at home at set times other than as a form of detention? The Minister has said people are provided with accommodation and care. What would she call the treatment of a pregnant asylum seeker...
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: 96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the investigations that have taken place into conditions and the changes that will be made following protests at direct provision centres throughout the country. [43827/14]
- Other Questions: Direct Provision System (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: I ask Deputy Fitzgerald as Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on any investigations she or her Department have carried out into direct provision centres and the conditions in them, particularly in light of the fact that residents at a number of centres have had to engage in protests to highlight their plight. What action is the Minister taking on this scandal?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister has not outlined any instances in which there was such a threat or danger.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: If the Minister heard the interviews with the people of Cobh this morning, she would know that these are ordinary men and women who have suffered under the past six years of austerity and have had to come out to protest peacefully in their communities.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: What did the Minister think would happen? Did she think she could hammer ordinary working-class people for six years - take away their teachers, take away their SNAs, take away their support, attack child benefit and impose a property tax - and this would not produce anger among communities?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: If she thought that, the Minister would want to wise up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: I would prefer not to be shouted down by Members on the Government side.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister has made a number of allegations about the protest in Tallaght. No brick was thrown at any protest in Tallaght.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The only thing thrown at a protest in Tallaght was a water balloon.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister saying that justifies the outrage of the media and Government Members over the weekend?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach made an incredible statement about a kidnapping. If the Minister believes that detaining a Minister - delaying her in going about the PR lies that she was engaging in-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: This is a woman who said three years ago that she was against water charges. Now she is imposing them on working-class communities, some of the most deprived communities in the country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Ruth Coppinger: I was interrupted continually and I would like to finish.