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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The opening statement says that our education system does not have a difficulty with recruitment or retention when it comes to SNAs. I believe the Department would say the same about teachers as well or certainly the Government does when it gets up to speak. How does the Department reconcile that view with what has been said by parents and here earlier by union representatives in relation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What kind of supports is the Department looking to give to SNAs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This is good, right, and we have heard about the review and the overall look at that again. However, in 2020 their union had to launch a campaign, Respect for SNAs. We are into 2025 now. Why has it taken this long? Can I finish with one specific question? The new SNA review guidelines are causing a lot of concern due to the narrow eligibility and the restricting of schools' flexibility....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with special needs without school places, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50705/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with special needs who have been offered school places but have been unable to take them up due to a lack of resources in the schools involved, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50706/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens who have been arrested and/or charged with supporting a terrorist organisation under the UK’s Terrorism Act for their support for Palestine Action; to outline the consular support the Irish embassy has given to those arrested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50353/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artists' Remuneration (23 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 353. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making permanent the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50004/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider increasing the grants for hearing aids to cover the full cost of the hearing aids; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50318/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Safety (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister of State's reply fails to grasp the point. The framework says that the Irish Aviation Authority oversees the implementation of the EU drone regulations, but it does not monitor noise. It said this at the Joint Committee on Transport. There is nobody monitoring what is the biggest single problem of these drones, which is noise. The Minster of State has said that drone delivery...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Safety (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We have to begin by saying that we all agree drones have massive potential for good in society such as for emergency relief mapping and delivering medicines to isolated areas etc. The focus of this Topical Issue is the fast-food drones that have been operating in Dublin 15 in particular. Manna, which operates these drones to deliver fast food, has been doing so for about a year and a half....

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Over the summer there was a series of attacks, apparently particularly directed against the Indian community. We had the case of an Indian man in Tallaght who was attacked, beaten and humiliated. He had clothing removed from him and there was the age-old racist trope of accusing somebody of colour of being violent. They were trying to accuse him of being a paedophile and there was...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is very important we call that out-----

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: ------that they are also echoing the far right as well.

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is five seconds. I am about to stop.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The annihilation of Gaza is apparently under way. We are seeing a ground attack, the blowing-up of high-rise buildings and the orphaning of children. I am in an Ireland-Palestine solidarity WhatsApp group in Dublin 15. The videos Gazan people are sharing are absolutely chilling. We are in a new phase of the genocide. There is a global day of action today. There will be a protest at the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----will the Irish Government now act unilaterally? The UN has now come out and said that this is officially genocide. The Government is legally obliged. With this body coming out with that recommendation, no more excuses are available to any government. Will the Government, for example, pass the occupied territories Bill in full, undiluted, and not just tell us that it will report back?...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: When is a school place not a school place? When it is a sanctioned school place. The verbal gymnastics the Government has been engaging in have been going on for a while, not just under the Minister of State's watch but under that of his predecessor. We have been asking for a long time for a figure in respect of the number of children who still do not have places. Now we want the figure...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In my brief time, I do not really have time to comment on the whole national strategy on disability. I just want to focus on one little boy who kind of sums up the attitude of this State to people with disabilities and particularly disabled children, namely, Harvey Morrison Sherratt, whose life was undervalued from the word go. Ironically, his parents were strongly encouraged to have an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Shame on you.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What about Melissa Hortman? There was no minute of silence. The Deputy is an absolute disgrace.