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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...country from 1983. In 1983, Magdalen laundries were still open, contraception was not fully legal and available, homosexuality was illegal, and many more people went to church and adhered to the tenets of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. We have a much more diverse, tolerant and liberal society now. I agree a referendum on the subject would be divisive but we have to have divisive...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: ...to the same people who crashed the economy in the first place and have not got their acts together since the recession. It will not work. Knowing this, why does the Government continue bowing to the tenets of the troika and claiming that nothing can be added to the balance sheet even when there is a dire social need? This is disappointing for people, but it must be well publicised. The...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: ...a carpet and keep people out of sight. The Minister of State should drop her proposal because HAP will accelerate the demise of the Labour Party. She may shrug her shoulders but it used to be a tenet of Labour Party thinking that social housing would be provided for working class people who could not afford to buy a house. The Minister of State is now throwing people off housing...