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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if existing participants of community service programmes are entitled to continue to claim secondary benefits from her Department; if she will outline the rules on eligibility for secondary benefits. [41226/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 282. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 17 September 2014, if he is in favour of a change to the EU VAT directive and relevant orders to allow for a zero rate of VAT for the purchase of defibrillators for community and sporting organisations. [41297/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 600. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent decision of the Irish nursing and midwifery board to increase registration fees for nurses and midwives; his views on the INMB taking into account the ability of nurses and midwives to pay the fee increases prior to making decisions of the level of fees; and if he will amend legislation to allow him to intervene to cap and-or reduce...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres available for use in a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the number of operating theatres that are in use; the number of surgeons and other medical professionals working in the theatres; the amount of spare capacity in the operating theatres; and the numbers of patients on the waiting list for surgery at this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 674. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous questions on the matter, the latest preparations for any possible cases of Ebola in the State. [41437/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (4 Nov 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 988. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 14 October 2014, his views on the amendment of section 8 of the Electoral Act 1992 to allow for the unilateral granting of the right to vote in elections to Dáil Éireann for all non-Irish citizens in view the larger numbers of such persons living and working in the...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: We should be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Can I ask a follow-up question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The question is in regard to cost per person. The figures given relate to the cost per head - they are per capita. Page 11 shows that the witnesses have come up with studies carried out in Dublin showing that a second person will use one third of the water a first person uses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is here on page 11 - I refer to a study carried out by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: No, it is hugely important because people are being fleeced - what they will actually pay has been underestimated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The commission accepts the notion that a teenager uses way less water than an adult, when anyone knows that a teenager uses more water than most adults, and it has accepted the definition of a child. This makes it clear there is no free water or free allowance and the commission is perpetuating that myth that is out there. My second question concerns the price rate that has been given....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I have a lot of questions, but I will begin by asking why the CER accepted the low usage figures provided by Irish Water. A comprehensive study of water usage was commissioned by Dublin City Council and carried out by Veolia Water UK and RPS in 2008 - I assume the CER accepts that the source for the study is reliable. The study found that average usage in 2007 for an individual was 148...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: And no lower as well.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have lost or had a deduction of their social welfare allowance because they refused to engage with labour activation schemes. [39863/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (21 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a reversal of the reductions in rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39862/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very difficult to know where to start with such a widespread budget. It can be summed up, however, as a transfer, again, of wealth to the rich and to the highest paid in society with little or nothing given to those most savagely hit by austerity over the past six years. There are many examples of this in the budget. In the Government’s information booklet on the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The groups most savagely and disproportionately hit by austerity are the low paid, women - who tend to be in the former category - and single parents. None of them has been compensated by yesterday’s budget. None of the cuts made by the Government in rent allowance over the past three years has been reversed. I will take the example of a family in Dublin renting and who are on a...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: What is it?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: How can he say that after this budget?