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Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Journalism.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I am a bit surprised to hear that people may vote against this amendment because it has not been scrutinised enough. I stayed for this because it is a big issue. I should probably have tabled an amendment. We have drafted a Bill on this issue that we would like to table. The word will go out from this Chamber that this issue was debated and voted down. I do not believe that workers will...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I am not lecturing. That is pathetic.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Exactly.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy can still support it.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It relates to bogus self-employment.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is all very well to say there is some fault in the amendment but what does the Minister propose is done in the area of bogus self-employment, which the Minister knows for years has been an absolute scourge for the people who are forced into it? I and others have raised many times in the Dáil the issue of the building sector, where this practice has become cancerous and widespread....

Northern Ireland and Brexit: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I would like to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Northern Ireland and Brexit: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to mention the issue of abortion rights in Northern Ireland, which has not been mentioned so far in this debate and does not seem to feature in the minds of politicians in the North. Our fantastic movement for abortion rights has brought this issue to the centre of the stage for women. Following our repeal referendum, there is a concern that anyone who can become pregnant in the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: So does the Tánaiste.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: There is no housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role and Remuneration of Elected Members of Local Authorities: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A review is worthwhile because, as others have said, it is particularly dangerous for spouses and partners of councillors. I hear reports of people losing social welfare payments because their partners are councillors. This is happening. It has happened to one of our own and to several other councillors. The danger of the way it impacts on a family's income is that one will get council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role and Remuneration of Elected Members of Local Authorities: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I did not say anything of the sort. I simply said the functions had gone down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role and Remuneration of Elected Members of Local Authorities: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, they are not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I thought that this was going to be a priority. In terms of referendums, this is a bit more real than the symbolic ones that are being proposed in October. If there are issues around the wording, this committee should have some opportunity to go through them. I do not know what the issue is for the Attorney General but I have an idea. It is disappointing that the summer recess is starting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Could we ask for this to be an item for the committee in September?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome Ms Comerford, Mr. Bissett and Ms Fagan. It is rotten that the community has to come here to seek a meeting with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government and put forward its own proposals when it has been let down on many occasions. The group is coming forward with its own proposals. I can understand why it considers the model it has put forward to be much better...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Cost Rental Housing Model: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: May I intervene? I have to leave in ten minutes. It is very interesting to hear Dr. Healy say that it should still have a bearing on the person's income.

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Can I speak for a minute on it to sum up the amendment and address the points that have been made?

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A report does not have to be the same length as "War and Peace". It can be a page saying the issue is being dealt with. I do not buy the idea of confusion. We do not have a facility to write in an amendment saying a law will be brought forward. This is the way we are doing it. A report could be brought forward saying the issues are being addressed in impending legislation next month....