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

Ruth Coppinger: -----these people out of the usual redress and this is why they are outside the gates. We need action.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Do you think they have not? Get a grip.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if an employer, when reimbursing an employee the 24 hour Revenue Commissioners’ approved unvouched subsistence allowance rate of currently €205.53, requires from the employee, not a full vouching, but the evidence that they incurred an overnight stay in a hotel via a receipt; if this employer evidencing requirement will give rise to any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will bring forward legislative change to allow for those who are pregnant or who have recently given birth to apply for a postal vote in all elections and referenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52166/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a direct route from the Dublin 15 area to Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51872/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I note Fianna Fáil had a meeting on drones in Dundrum. My question relates to a direct bus route from the greater Blanchardstown area to Dublin Airport. Thousands of people work in the airport and many people have to get to it. Recently, Ongar Tidy Towns has been informed by the NTA that the expected roll-out of an N8 service has now been delayed for at least two years.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Fair play to the civil servant who padded out that answer for the Minister because my question was not about BusConnects. Rather, it was about a specific issue. The Minister dealt with that issue in a couple of sentences and the information is very similar. They have been told the project will be delivered in quarter 3 of 2026, which is next year. Given that people have been told it is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: A taxi from Ongar to Dublin Airport costs €50 to €65, for example. That is what passengers are being forced to spend. We could eliminate 10,000 to 20,000 car journeys immediately by introducing a direct bus route. It should be an absolute priority. Residents have suggested that the Minister might consider extending the W4 route to the airport until the N8 is finally rolled...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: No, I cannot. I am suffering this every day.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I suffer drones over my head.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There are other people who cannot go to the shop.

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to welcome the families and relatives to the Gallery. They are here because of what is happening in Palestine. Yesterday, a nurse was shot on the job. I have seen kids carrying other kids on their backs. It is a common sight. The worst I saw was a kid carrying a shrouded dead sibling on their back. The fact that governments have allowed this genocide to happen is a stain on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [49986/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Six months. I probably could. I thank the Chair. It was important to come into the committee meeting today, because out of all of the issues that I have raised relating to sexual or gender-based violence and the ten-point plan that we proposed, the counselling notes is the one single thing that has agitated survivors, therapists and the general population the most, not anything else. I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on the Dart+ project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51873/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on the implementation on the national policy framework for unmanned aircraft systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consultation he will have with residents regarding regulations for unmanned commercial delivery drones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51875/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disability Services (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied buses have sufficient facilities for disabled people and people with medical needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 8 September 2025, the specific issues that led the meeting to be suspended without agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52021/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will support an increase in Budget 2025 to the Irish language and Gaeltacht from 0.17% of State spending to 0.4% over a 5 year period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52051/25]