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Common Agricultural Policy and Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan: Statements (15 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Ireland's agricultural industry is an environmental laggard. Agriculture here and in the EU is based on a capitalist economic model of industrial-scale farming that is hugely unsustainable, produces environmental destruction and fails to provide sustainable and secure incomes for small and medium farmers in Ireland and globally into the future. CAP is part of that unsustainable global...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence have been for many years seeking a ban on counselling notes being used in trials because it is so traumatising and damaging. This weekend, Jacqueline Connolly, the sister of Clodagh Hawe, who was murdered along with her children by her husband, spoke about a priest who pleaded confessional privilege who had vital information relating to those...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We need an end to this practice, not to leave it in the hands of a judge.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The mere fact-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----one's counselling notes can be seized is what is traumatic and damaging.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am just finishing the sentence.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I was interrupted because they were all talking during it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I was not sure if the Taoiseach could hear me, so I stopped.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: And it is not good enough. It is not ending the practice. It is just-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: But they clearly are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We cannot wait.

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Once again, this is a Bill that has had to be brought before the Dáil because the Irish Government persists with this illusion that people have the right to union representation. It is Orwellian that you have the right to join a union but your employer does not have to recognise it, so you really do not have a right. If the Government is serious about workers' rights, this is a key...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The UK Supreme Court judgment on the definition of a woman impacts trans and intersex people in Northern Ireland. Many of them are living in fear and being driven out of public life, which is the intent of the judgment. The DUP has said that it will look at guidelines for schools, which means there could be further attacks on the rights of trans people. Many of these are eligible to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [19931/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Care of older people is very important and is generally privatised in terms of nursing homes. The workers who provide this service in nursing homes are essential workers. Many of them were brought over on a special work permit in which the Government was involved. I ask the Taoiseach on a humanitarian basis to listen to the issues raised by these workers. Their wages are too low to allow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [22105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (8 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 412. To ask the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista building has been approved by HSE estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23008/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: During the general election, you could not move but for tripping over another promotion of €200-a-month childcare. Every party on the Government side was at it. That is what happens in elections and now, unfortunately, we have been told this promise will fade into dust and there will be no movement on it in the upcoming budget. It is extremely cynical and stressful for parents. We...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: You do not do anything about it.

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We need action.