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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (18 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the implementation of the circular relating to the ability of students to opt out of religion classes in education and training board schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37235/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the waiting times for join spouse visas; the measures he will put in place to reduce processing times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37082/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (18 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 502. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of the Spinraza medication for those with spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37461/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (18 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 645. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to implement a programme to assist persons with non-visible disabilities to have greater access to public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37039/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Half a million homeless persons.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Do we have a Minister answering? I do not know.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a pity the Minister, Deputy Ross, did not stay because this is a massive issue throughout Dublin.

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Why pay €400,000 to a consultant to create a re-jigging of existing bus routes and dress it up as being something more frequent? The Minister has said this will ease congestion. That means getting people out of cars. Why would people get out of cars to get two buses rather than one? It makes no sense. In the case of my own area, which is obviously a pattern from what others have...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Many people found it highly ironic that at a time when the country was voting in the referendum on the eighth amendment and many Members were campaigning to put women at the centre of their own lives and healthcare, the Government was ensnared in a scandal which involved women's health and views being utterly diminished. It has been confirmed in the report that paternalism ran and runs...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is not confirmed by the report.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The central issue is the testing service that led to the errors in the first place. It is not true that the labs were given a clean bill of health. I wish to mention a group which came up from Cork yesterday, Women's Lives Matter. It had a petition with 1,200 signatures and its members wanted to meet the Minister. I know that is not always possible but they were disappointed that they...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: More time should have been allocated. This is the biggest issue of recent months.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I will have to cut my contribution short but there are important issues that need to be thrashed out. I wish to mention Vicky, Stephen, Emma, Lorraine, Ruth and many others who never wanted to be household names but now are for all the wrong reasons. They have made a great difference and I acknowledge that. On the laboratories, chapter 6 of the report outlines that the US-based labs,...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: In the report, Dr. Scally also examines the nature of the testing, how many tests were carried out and the compliance of the labs with quality and regulatory standards. This is of current relevance because Sonic Healthcare is the mother company of MedLab Pathology, which is proposing the outsourcing of testing of Irish samples to Australia. In terms of quality assurance and the visits that...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Further investigation of these issues is needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It does actually, but please continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the witnesses for attending. I want to bring the conversation back to the women who are travelling, with over 1,000 having had to do that since we voted in May. We will never know the exact figure but from studies which have been done on telemedicine providers, up to five people a day in Ireland use abortion pills purchased online. These are the key people that we need to take into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I would add that I do not think a 72-hour waiting period was high in the mind of anyone who went out and voted in the referendum, although I have heard that argument being used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, I wish to correct the record. There is no mention of a 72-hour waiting period in the report of the Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. That is important because it was stated that we all voted for it. Any time that issue was raised, it was shot down by experts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Durkan was very vocal on the issue. Deputy Durkan should not be making out that we discussed it.