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- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The problems have been ongoing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: We have obviously touched a nerve.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: If the correct owner-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: What was it an inquiry into?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy must see-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: All parties need a chance to get answers from the Minister and in respect of previous Governments.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Farrell said we debated the issue last week. Given that the schools are still not open, this is an ongoing issue.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It may not be important to Deputy Farrell but the fact that children were put in danger because of private profit is important.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Private profits endanger children's lives. Deputy Farrell should stay quiet.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Farrell was on the council as well. What does he have to say?