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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (21 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 14 January 2015, if she will provide the information on the appeal processing times for rent supplement in 2014. [2892/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 116. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there is no provision for archaeological research to take place within the remit of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters. [2182/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 125. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Magdalen laundries are not included in the Commission of investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters. [2183/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Data (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 319. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are married to, or in civil partnerships with, Irish citizens who were not granted family reunification visas in the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive. [2228/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Data (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 320. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are married to, or in civil partnerships with, Irish citizens who were granted family reunification visas in the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive. [2229/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 341. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will intervene to overturn the decision to refuse a family unification visa in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [2676/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 373. To ask the Minister for Health in order to honour Ireland's human rights obligations not to interfere with the right to obtain the highest possible standard of health, his views that the appropriate changes be made to the law to allow mifepristone and misoprostol to be available here for use in safe, early abortions. [43826/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision for transport for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 attending a special needs school in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. [2777/15]

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What did the Government really expect? A total of €2.7 billion was cut from health during the recession. Last year alone, approximately €660 million was cut by the Government and 2,000 beds have been closed. It was inevitable there would be a bed crisis and an accident and emergency department crisis over Christmas and the new year. We have seen up to 600 people on trolleys...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (15 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been investigated for breaching the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. [1396/15]

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Taoiseach willing to allow the Irish people the chance to remove a law which is the envy of religious fundamentalists around the world? Was he strutting and posing for liberty in Paris while maintaining women as vessels and incubators at home, alive or dead? Will the Taoiseach hold a raft of referendums in May while refusing to allow people to have their say on the eighth amendment?...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Taoiseach hold a referendum in May, alongside those on marriage equality and other questions, and lift the shackles from doctors and women?

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I agree with the Taoiseach that the Constitution is in place. I am asking him to allow people to change it by holding a referendum, enabling them to overturn a decision that was taken 31 years ago at the behest of a Catholic lobby and nobody else. He said the eighth amendment did not prevent the life support from being turned off, but it is the reason doctors were fearful in the first...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and misogynistic that there is no way any religious fundamentalist would seek to have it put in place. My key point is that the Taoiseach will have the chance to resolve this issue in May. There is no impediment to the holding of a referendum on this in line with the referendums on marriage equality and other issues. Will the Taoiseach give time for this to be discussed in the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Nothing. Take it out.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is the first chance the Dáil has had to discuss the horrific case of a clinically dead pregnant woman kept alive for 23 days in December against her family's wishes. I wish to convey the sympathies of the Anti-Austerity Alliance to her family who had to endure the tragic loss of their young daughter and then watch the indignities that were heaped upon her. They were forced into...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 9 December 2014 her views on a change to the current legislation and rules in relation to income earned on a once off basis as a polling clerk being deducted in a means test for a couple in receipt of carer's allowance and jobseeker's allowance. [49661/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (14 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 70. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average time between an appeal of a decision being registered and the appeal being considered; the causes of delays; the steps her Department is taking to make any necessary improvements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1333/15]

Opposing Domestic Violence: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Christmas should be a happy time for families and everybody, but unfortunately it is a time when violence against women flares up in a dramatic way. It is a time when, according to Women's Aid, fear, intimidation, casual cruelty, sudden flashes of violence, threats to the well-being of children and the use of children as pawns to control and intimidate are rife. Unfortunately, this is what...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: That is very backward. Welcome to the 21st century.