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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 366. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of medical doctors who are prescribing hormone replacement therapy for transgender persons will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8455/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (15 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the criteria for the home carer tax credit to cover persons who are not married but living together; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7834/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (15 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will raise with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, the development for commercial use of the land used by a club (details supplied) for its playing pitches; his views on whether NAMA is delivering on its social responsibilities to the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7932/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Fees (15 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on schools charging a compulsory fee for students to participate in transition year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7903/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (15 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment of needs. [7908/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (14 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications can be made following the issuing of a gender recognition certificate without requiring a person to wait until their current passport expires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7690/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (14 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request NAMA to ensure a building (details supplied) will be kept as a historical heritage building for the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7700/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Female Genital Mutilation (14 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the delivery of awareness programmes for female genital mutilation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7757/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (14 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 190. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to commence Parts 3 and 4 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7697/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (14 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a building (details supplied) will be protected in view of the fact that the building is of historical interest and part of the heritage in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7699/18]

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The third interim report was met with acute dissatisfaction by survivors and their families and supporters, people who had been failed by the State, the religious denominations and the entire establishment. For the lone parents, unmarried mothers and poor parents involved - in many cases, the only crime of those placed in county homes was being homeless or living in poverty - this is not an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Functions (13 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if posthumous pardons for those who were convicted of offences that related to protests for the right of women to vote will be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7300/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome this discussion today. This essentially boils down to the impact of EU fiscal rules on our housing crisis. We sat here a year and a half ago when the first thing the new Dáil did was to establish a housing and homelessness committee. I was happy with many things in the report. However, the fiscal rules are central to why we are not making progress on the housing crisis,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I mean it will be one-third of public housing. That is the shift. To clarify, Fingal County Council has given over all of its land and it is generally approved housing bodies rather than the council building them. It is council land that is being used so it is a shift and we should not pretend that it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is problematic. The council has agreed to develop 1,100 or 1,200 units on one site in Blanchardstown, at Damastown. Is that going to be divided up into eight housing bodies? That will be a nightmare. The representation issue is important because of tenants with pyrite who have not been able to get any communication from their housing body. I have raised this before but nothing has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We raised some of the same issues in today's earlier session with the approved housing bodies. My questions are directed more at the CSO and the Department, however. Can the CSO clarify for us that the approved housing bodies are being put onto the State balance sheet on the basis that they are almost exclusively financed by Government? Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: To me, the upping of housing provision under the approved housing bodies was a deliberate tactic to try to bypass the fiscal rules. It would seem that maybe the game is up on that now. I wanted to raise a number of issues with the Department about the EU fiscal rules. Some of these points came up in the special committee on housing and homelessness. Has there been any movement on them in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Mr. McCarthy does not agree with the former Minister for Finance, who told the housing committee that if it goes on the balance sheet, we break the fiscal rules.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry, and I will not interrupt Mr. McCarthy again, but just to clarify this point. Is he saying the Government could spend the money if it decided, for example, to introduce a wealth tax or something, to pay for house building? Could it do that? Could it decide to increase taxation of a sector to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reclassification of Approved Housing Bodies: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Has there been any discussion about something like a millionaires' tax or wealth tax or some kind of major taxation to build houses?