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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is about not saying anything about Palestinian hostages, Taoiseach. That is the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: No, that is not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is Taoiseach's questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I think you did not want to say anything about the Palestinian hostages, Taoiseach. That is very clear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: So will you say something tonight about the Palestinians?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I, indeed, will be raising it too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy just happened to be the first person. In relation to Palestine and the ceasefire, I want to ask the Taoiseach, "What now?" What should be the approach of the Government in relation to what has happened? Obviously, any respite for the people of Gaza and for the children of Gaza from the genocide that they have endured for almost two years is hugely welcome. However, of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I know. Fianna Fáil sent a lot of people emigrating. I remember it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: You are gas.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: We are saying to nationalise electricity.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [49988/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Government took a decision in the budget to give huge tax cuts to developers, the fast food industry and the hospitality sector to boost trade and competitiveness. In doing so, it has made people 2% worse off according to the ESRI and the bottom 10% of society are 4.4% worse off. I will specifically ask the Taoiseach about electricity. We have the highest electricity costs in the EU...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Maybe it is not such a bad idea after all to go back to the model we had in the 1970s and 1980s when people could afford electricity.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [49987/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is not the Minister of State's decision to make.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (14 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will be allocating funding to Dublin Zoo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55296/25]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I hope I get the extra half minute now that the Minister of State got. I will tell the Minister of State what I agree with. I agree that this Government that is meant to support the Palestinian state has utterly failed to carry out action in the past two years to do that. It would not even pass the occupied territories Bill.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: We are the second biggest trader with Israel.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is true.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State asked me a question. I totally agree that workers and young people throughout the world have been the only saving grace as this horrific genocide that we are seeing livestreamed on our phones each day has occurred. Only for the protest movements that are happening, there would be no action at all. The EU has been an utter disgrace throughout this and obviously the US...