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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Stop evictions.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Who is doing that?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That would be disastrous.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: In fairness, it is usually the Minister's party.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: They have already divided the people.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Two hundred years ago a preposterous notion was challenged - the divine right of kings. Today an equally preposterous notion has to be challenged - the divine right of private property. We live in a state where 10,000 people are officially homeless and 250,000 workers and young people face housing unaffordability. While there is ample land and resources available to resolve the crisis, the...

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the keeping of animals solely or primarily for slaughter for the value of their fur and to make related amendments to the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013. This Bill gives the Dáil the opportunity to ban the cruel and unethical practice of fur farming in Ireland. It is a Bill that has the active support of...

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I have become so used to this kind of thing that I did not bother raising it.

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Will we hang on, a Cheann Comhairle? There should be a Minister from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine present, should there not?

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Should we start again, a Cheann Comhairle?

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: In fur farms, mink are kept in cages and away from what would be considered their natural environment. Given that they are ferocious hunters, they are kept within strictly secure premises. The first law related to mink in Ireland was aimed at keeping them out of Ireland and to have regulations attached to any that might be here. Public opinion is very firmly against fur farming and the...

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sure the Taoiseach, like the rest of us, read with horror about the fate of a woman who showed up at the Rotunda Hospital having given birth to stillborn twins and who was in homeless accommodation. Where lies the promise the Government made to have everyone out of emergency accommodation by last summer and what research is the Government doing on the number of pregnant women in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is scandalous that the Taoiseach is not able to give statistics on pregnant women in homelessness.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (27 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I have a query on that as well. When will the protocol on the Treaty of Lisbon be debated?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (27 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: On 25 September.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Future of Council Housing: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. When I read this initially I was taken aback in terms of the social policy, but I am mindful that we have not been given the full report and that we have only some of the recommendations. I will hold fire for that reason. When I read that there should be a removal of the maximum rent I thought of the situation in Fingal a few years ago where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I wanted to address some questions to the team from Fingal County Council. I thank them for the detailed presentation they supplied to the committee. The initial part of their statement outlines the scale of housing need in Fingal. Fingal has more than 250,000 people and is the second biggest of the local authorities. It is a diverse borough but with a significant housing crisis, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Would the Chairman mind if my questions are answered first as I must go? I got my name in early for that reason.