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Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 146. To ask the Minister for Health when the last national Traveller health advisory committee met; when the next meeting is to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46211/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be increased for Traveller health; the action being taken to improve Traveller health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46212/18]

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Can I just say one thing?

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Questions have not been answered here today.

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very frustrating. The Minister has been asked by nearly everybody why the Government continued with a company that was known three years ago to have breached fire safety standards in a school. He was also asked whether we could have had a situation similar to Grenfell in respect of these schools. He has not answered these really important questions.

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Why continue with this company when it was known years ago that there were problems with it? That was the first question.

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister's predecessor knew the position three years ago. That is the question.

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes.

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: What about political accountability?

Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Yesterday, the Minister told the Joint Committee on Education and Skills that clerks of works were on site. To make it absolutely clear to people viewing these proceedings, clerks of works do not check safety, as the Minister confirmed today. As we speak, therefore, we are putting thousands of children into buildings for five or six hours a day and hundreds of employees, yet we do not have...

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...