Results 61-80 of 7,190 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider allowing older persons with disabilities to access disability allowance along with their pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the implementation of additional tests for the newborn bloodspot screening programme for spinal muscular atrophy. [54348/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is disgraceful.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The disabled community is reeling in the aftermath of this budget. People are sharing ideas online of how they are going to spend the extra tenner a week. They are absolutely gutted by what the Government did. The Disability Federation of Ireland has called it a major setback. The Government's argument that it is providing services instead of allowing people to live independent lives is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 324. To ask the Minister for Health to consider reinstating training for advanced practitioners in the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54181/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 325. To ask the Minister for Health to consider increasing the new development funding provided to the National Ambulance Service, given the projected 11% increase in emergency calls projected in the HSE national service plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54182/25]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In the old days, housing figures came out and we took them to be public housing figures. I find it actually laughable in recent years the way the housing figures encompass everything that is built in the country and the Government takes the credit. I see this as the Government’s drive to reach the housing targets it missed by pumping money into private developers and construction...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I know we are a smaller group, but one of the Ministers should be here on budget day to hear what the smaller groups have to say. I mean no offence to the Minister of State.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The absence of the Ministers is not a sign that there is an interest in what we have to say. An independent life is what we all aspire to. What hope can young people have of an independent life and a home of their own after this budget? Two thirds of people under the age of 35 live at home with their parents. What hope can a disabled person have? What hope can a family paying...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the payment of the five percent increase for those availing of the CIÉ pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53398/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider including those people who have retired since January 2023 in the five percent increase to CIÉ pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53399/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider providing access to a HAA medical card and a full pension to industrial school survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53385/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1721 of 8 September 2025, the number of non-coursing greyhounds active on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann Race Management System on 13 June 2025 and not the twelve months previously (details supplied), by year of birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53379/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste made an infamous promise to parents in 2017 that nobody would be waiting for a scoliosis operation for more than four months. When are we going to reach that point? It seems that 226 children are on the CHI spinal surgery list. In August, 135 were actively waiting, ready to go. The numbers on the spinal outpatient lists are over 461. The CHI spinal surgery management...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There are three issues. Does the Minister have confidence in the clinical lead of the paediatric spinal surgery management unit? This is the person who took Harvey Sherratt off the waiting list without parental knowledge or consent. How many other children were taken off the lists in that way? Second, does the Minister have any knowledge of any other medical devices that have been used...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: So the Minister has confidence in the clinical lead, or does she not?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry; I will clarify. Parents and advocates are asking about three particular issues in this regard. First, they want to know if the Minister has confidence in the clinical lead. Second, which I do not think she referred to either, is she aware of any other devices that have been used in an off-label way - parents have said this - and inserted into children? Third, we all know that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual figures since 2015 for appeals lodged with the social welfare appeals office querying a refusal based on the habitual residence condition, by Irish citizens and non-Irish nationals, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52778/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The last thing we need are people on hunger strike outside the gates of Leinster House, especially people who were incarcerated by this State, some of them as children, for 16 years. I cancelled what I had planned to raise today because I met those people - the three women and one man - yesterday. The things they are looking for are so basic it is embarrassing. These include access to the...