Results 141-160 of 6,877 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the suitability of the Reading Recovery programme for those with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30198/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS schools are obliged to implement the Reading Recovery programme for those behind with literacy skills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a report (details supplied) in relation to the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the mandatory registration to the Construction Industry Register Ireland due at the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a ban on the general sale of wasp poisons given the danger of their use against bees and the need to protect bee populations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30199/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1471. To ask the Minister for Health if she has replied to correspondence from a representative organisation (details supplied); the steps she will take in response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29798/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1477. To ask the Minister for Health the possibility of undertaking a medical evacuation of a person (details supplied)), to reconsider the possibility of implementing a formal medical evacuation system for people in Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1559. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request University Hospital Waterford to provide the name of the doctor involved in a particular case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30195/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine providing pay incentives to public sector workers where there are acute recruitment and retention issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28899/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What incentives will the Minister provide for public sector workers because of the acute shortages we are seeing? Some 382 roles in the national children's hospital are unfilled. There are 700 vacancies for psychiatric nurses. There are 529 unfilled posts throughout the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Some 500 new social workers are required per year. Some 75% of secondary...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In our mutual constituency, the resounding message at the doors is that young Castleknock is in Australia. That was said to me. I was told I would not meet anyone over the age of 23 in the area. The Mayor of London estimates that a worker needs £9,600 extra to live in inner London. There is a London weighting allowance, for example, for the NHS, whereby a worker in inner London is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In other words, the Government is not going to do anything. That is the reality. It is going to stick by these collective agreements that do not serve all groups of workers. I will give the examples of the Tories, who I would not be singing the praises of at any time. Due to the teaching crisis in the UK, a scheme was introduced to make bursaries available. To teach chemistry, for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine providing special allowances to public sector workers that take account of increased housing and other costs in many areas in the state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27864/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine pay and other incentives to encourage people to undertake training in areas of staff shortage in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27865/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the need for a pay rise in the public sector to take account of the increased cost of living in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine a pay cap for CEOs in public sector bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 556. To ask the Minister for Health to consider expanding the current criteria for publicly funded IVF to include those who require IVF treatment but are not experiencing fertility issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28584/25]

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: People often speculate about what they would have done in Nazi Germany or in the 1930s. The answer is that whatever you are doing now is what you would have done then. The Minister of State is in government and has power. I thank the Labour Party for moving this motion. I do not agree with every word it contains, however. There is no global community. That has been utterly exposed....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Reunification (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am surprised to hear the review is still under way. People have made submissions. Unite trade union is now organising these workers. This is very positive because migrant workers have not traditionally been able to participate in the trade union movement. It is very difficult and scary for somebody working in a private nursing home to put their head above the parapet. These workers...