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

Ruth Coppinger: How long will that take? There has been an application but have the witnesses heard back from the Department or anything? It is something we can put to the Minister tomorrow.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Twenty-five units seems very small. I know things have to be done in phases but 1,200 houses will take a decade at that rate. Would the planners not go for a bigger first phase?

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

Ruth Coppinger: Ms Egan said that would be in 2019.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is privatisation-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We should support the sex education Bill as well.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Another five years. The Government has had seven.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (25 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the proposed reconfiguration process in school patronage; if school patronage surveys have been undertaken; if so, if he will report on the results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38773/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (25 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the MacLochlainn commission of investigation report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38415/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (20 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in west County Dublin diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder who are leaving primary school and require a secondary school place. [38123/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (20 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in west County Dublin diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in receipt of home school grants; and the annual cost of same. [38124/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (20 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with autism spectrum disorder who are either on reduced hours or excluded from school; and the number in west County Dublin. [38125/18]

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Many people found it highly ironic that at a time when the country was voting in the referendum on the eighth amendment and many Members were campaigning to put women at the centre of their own lives and healthcare, the Government was ensnared in a scandal which involved women's health and views being utterly diminished. It has been confirmed in the report that paternalism ran and runs...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is not confirmed by the report.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The central issue is the testing service that led to the errors in the first place. It is not true that the labs were given a clean bill of health. I wish to mention a group which came up from Cork yesterday, Women's Lives Matter. It had a petition with 1,200 signatures and its members wanted to meet the Minister. I know that is not always possible but they were disappointed that they...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: More time should have been allocated. This is the biggest issue of recent months.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I will have to cut my contribution short but there are important issues that need to be thrashed out. I wish to mention Vicky, Stephen, Emma, Lorraine, Ruth and many others who never wanted to be household names but now are for all the wrong reasons. They have made a great difference and I acknowledge that. On the laboratories, chapter 6 of the report outlines that the US-based labs,...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: In the report, Dr. Scally also examines the nature of the testing, how many tests were carried out and the compliance of the labs with quality and regulatory standards. This is of current relevance because Sonic Healthcare is the mother company of MedLab Pathology, which is proposing the outsourcing of testing of Irish samples to Australia. In terms of quality assurance and the visits that...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Further investigation of these issues is needed.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Do we have a Minister answering? I do not know.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a pity the Minister, Deputy Ross, did not stay because this is a massive issue throughout Dublin.