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- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I did not understand the order to be so strict and that there would be one minute back and forth.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I asked for time to be provided for this discussion. It is a little strict and constrained to have one minute back and forth. I was not at the meeting of the Business Committee.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It was agreed by the Business Committee and the information was sent out.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the implementation of consent courses in youth organisations and youth clubs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45879/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide assistance to youth clubs and sports clubs orientated to young persons in Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15, following the closure of a centre (details supplied) due to building defects being found; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45878/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Is there a time limit on this meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I have waited an hour, which is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Many local people are watching this and in case the Minister has to leave I have questions that parents want me to ask him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The people in the two Tyrrelstown schools have been in close contact with the Department but I will start with a very general issue and then get into some particulars. Like everyone else, what the Minister is basically saying is that the clerk of works does not actually check work; he or she keeps the work moving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister is effectively telling an Oireachtas committee that buildings with thousands of young people in them for five to six hours or more each day and hundreds of employees working in them are built and no safety checks are carried out on them before the Department takes control of them and puts people into them. I think many people out there will be scratching their heads in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister, Deputy Bruton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes. I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I keep losing track. I meant the former Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I assume the former Minister will have to answer questions as well as Deputy McHugh because the latter has come into office just in the past month or so. Everyone knows the really difficult situation in which the principals in Tyrrelstown have been landed. I have huge sympathy for them. Everyone wants to get this resolved. We held a meeting about the matter last week, to which I thought...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: As a Deputy for the area, I found it hard to get information. I accept the principals are the absolute priority but I was waiting to see what they were posting on Facebook. Public representatives are also contacted and asked and it is assumed that we are in the loop, and some of us are not in the loop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It is more an ongoing daily matter than a matter of one meeting in Tullamore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Department did not even feed them properly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister determined to pursue something like that, for a change in this country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: They did not want to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Did the Department visit lots of sites?