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Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is not confirmed by the report.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The central issue is the testing service that led to the errors in the first place. It is not true that the labs were given a clean bill of health. I wish to mention a group which came up from Cork yesterday, Women's Lives Matter. It had a petition with 1,200 signatures and its members wanted to meet the Minister. I know that is not always possible but they were disappointed that they...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: More time should have been allocated. This is the biggest issue of recent months.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I will have to cut my contribution short but there are important issues that need to be thrashed out. I wish to mention Vicky, Stephen, Emma, Lorraine, Ruth and many others who never wanted to be household names but now are for all the wrong reasons. They have made a great difference and I acknowledge that. On the laboratories, chapter 6 of the report outlines that the US-based labs,...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: In the report, Dr. Scally also examines the nature of the testing, how many tests were carried out and the compliance of the labs with quality and regulatory standards. This is of current relevance because Sonic Healthcare is the mother company of MedLab Pathology, which is proposing the outsourcing of testing of Irish samples to Australia. In terms of quality assurance and the visits that...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Further investigation of these issues is needed.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Do we have a Minister answering? I do not know.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a pity the Minister, Deputy Ross, did not stay because this is a massive issue throughout Dublin.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Why pay €400,000 to a consultant to create a re-jigging of existing bus routes and dress it up as being something more frequent? The Minister has said this will ease congestion. That means getting people out of cars. Why would people get out of cars to get two buses rather than one? It makes no sense. In the case of my own area, which is obviously a pattern from what others have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Half a million homeless persons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It does actually, but please continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the witnesses for attending. I want to bring the conversation back to the women who are travelling, with over 1,000 having had to do that since we voted in May. We will never know the exact figure but from studies which have been done on telemedicine providers, up to five people a day in Ireland use abortion pills purchased online. These are the key people that we need to take into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I would add that I do not think a 72-hour waiting period was high in the mind of anyone who went out and voted in the referendum, although I have heard that argument being used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, I wish to correct the record. There is no mention of a 72-hour waiting period in the report of the Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. That is important because it was stated that we all voted for it. Any time that issue was raised, it was shot down by experts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan was very vocal on the issue. Deputy Durkan should not be making out that we discussed it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I am just correcting the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The record is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We did not vote on it. I am just correcting the Deputy, who is factually wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan constantly interrupts.

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity supports the Bill and will campaign for a "Yes" vote in the referendum. We formally proposed the removal of the offence of blasphemy in our Bill in July 2017. The 1937 Constitution which is being amended was designed in a Catholic state where the Catholic Church held a privileged and special position. There are multiple references specifically from a Catholic or Christian...