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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: It is not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very busy right now but he can make a complaint.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: You said there were no families-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: If you had any decency you would-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: He is pathetic.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State is acting like a Healy-Rae.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I am wondering if the Government has changed its mind about passing Solidarity's Anti-Evictions Bill 2018 in the light of what we have seen in the past week when a homeless man was murdered in Cork and another person died in Dublin. We have had children eating their dinner on a piece of cardboard in front of the GPO. We have had RTÉ showing children in their school uniforms queuing for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Services Programme Administration (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: As I do not have a copy of the written reply, I cannot interrogate all of the detail. I want to make this simple. I was approached by several workers in my local community centre. They work for €9.80 per hour. They are employed directly by a council-run community centre. They approached the council and the management committee to seek a pay rise to bring them into line with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Services Programme Administration (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The way around the problem is to increase the funding provided for community centres specifically to increase the wages of the workers they employ. It should be ring-fenced for that purpose. I know that in reply the Minister of State will argue that the Department does not have the money to do so, but that is simply not tenable. We have the highest number of high net worth individuals -...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Services Programme Administration (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will increase funding of community centres to ensure workers receive a wage higher than the national minimum wage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43809/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Services Programme Administration (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder if the Minister can help so that people doing vital work in community centres can be brought above the poverty line, where many of them now live. There is a terrible anomaly between workers getting the national minimum wage and those on community employment, CE, or Tús schemes. Ironically, people on the schemes can end up having more income because they are also entitled to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: When I raised this idea with the Taoiseach earlier in the month, he said it was a good idea and indicated that he would look into it. However, in a letter he sent subsequently the fund was no longer mentioned. Instead, he pointed towards six funds. Is the Government seriously suggesting people go out fundraising and then claim from six funds, with all of the administration that involves?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: It is bizarre that fire safety regulations were increased, yet there is no mechanism to help organisations to meet them. Unfortunately, local authorities do not run all community centres. That is the problem. The greyhound industry which many believe is cruel received €17 million from the Government in the recent budget, while community centres have been left to bag-pack, organise...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will establish a national fund to assist community centres in need of fire safety works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43806/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fire Safety (24 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister will be aware that fire and safety audits are being done by many community centres and it results in them needing to significantly enhance their buildings and raise funds for that work. We all agree with increased fire safety regulations but there has to be a way for public buildings and community centres to get this work done. Hartstown and Huntstown are two community centres...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of funds on the discharge of a person (details supplied) to a suitable specialist centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43752/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she received veterinary advice on the partial lifting of the ban on netting hares due to the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus; her views on a possible spread of the virus among the hare population here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43683/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (23 Oct 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: 226. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will require captured hares to be microchipped; if veterinarians and the National Parks and Wildlife Service will be involved in supervision of the netting and release of hares; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43798/19]