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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has estimated how much a 5% or 10% rise in wages for low and middle income workers would boost tax receipts and reduce welfare payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28546/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Yield (3 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Has the Minister considered the impact on the economy of a 5% or 10% pay increase for low and middle income workers in terms of tax receipts and a lowering of social welfare? The reason I ask the question is that the Minister has touted the benefits of a tax cut over pay increases while calling for employers and, indeed, the Government to suppress wage increases.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (3 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will apply for funds from the Ireland strategic investment fund to invest in the construction of thousands of social, affordable and local authority homes [25440/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect the Government policy has had since 2007 of downsizing of the public sector and cutting wages on the wage share-wages as a percentage of GDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28548/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (3 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish inequitable tax reliefs in the budget such as tax relief on pension contributions at the marginal rate. [28547/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Is that just for the first two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am equally dubious about how the timeline has been completely thrown off by the lack of information from Irish Water. The public is being deliberately kept in the dark. This is the only conclusion we can draw. The water charges are political dynamite as everybody who canvassed knows. CER states the average charge will not be more than €240 on average. From where does it get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: It will take a long time to answer the questions. It would be better to group them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am just saying it will take another hour or hour and a half to answer the questions. Would it not be better to group them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: I am just proposing that we consider the option. Senator Keane did not listen to the previous responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: That is grand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: Half of them have been asked already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The question on health was answered.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 70. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to reinstate the 2009 cuts to the early childcare supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28006/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 85. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will ensure that a child care service (details supplied) will remain open and fully funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28005/14]

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: 11 o’clock Perhaps I missed something, but I am not sure if the Minister of State has circulated the wording for her statutory instrument. It seems she has not done so. In an earlier debate she told me I was not long in the Dáil, which is true, but I do know we do not vote on the promise of something. The least that should be done is that the Minister of State provide the...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: All of the necessary things have been done by the council to facilitate this, but, unfortunately, developers and the banking sector are not interested. The Bill is a landlord's charter. I ask the Minister of State to withdraw it, allow discussion and debate-----

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and not to leave people in the hands of landlords.

State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: My focus is on section 33 of the Bill which will have very serious consequences for workers in the airline sector. Why is the Minister facilitating solvent companies in taking thousands of workers out of a pension scheme, particularly when negotiations have not finished? The provisions will have a devastating impact on the workers who paid into the scheme, as they will lose up to 50% of...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Jun 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach's speech gave no signal of any change in European policies following the very clear message from the electorate throughout Ireland and Europe, where anti-austerity forces achieved major victories and many of the traditional parties of austerity were dealt a severe blow, for example, in Spain. The message from the electorate could not be any clearer. People are sick and tired...