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Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Ruth Coppinger: Can you stop heckling me? In doing so-----

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Today we nominate a Taoiseach in a week that Donald Trump was inaugurated, surrounded by his broligarchy, his billionaires and his sexual predators. He announced that the US intends to continue to destroy the planet for profit, pick on minorities and move in a more competitive and genocidal direction. Beside him, the world's richest man did two fascist salutes for good measure. What was...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----partly in an attempt to prostrate itself in front of Trump and the corporations and to ignore the ongoing suffering of the people of Palestine. What was a very right-wing Government will become more right-wing, including with the motley crew of those who espouse some of the ideas of misogyny, racism and climate denial as well. They are becoming more right-wing and more clearly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Jan 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is considering the provision of a multi-gendered, multi-denomination second level option in the Dublin 15/Dublin 7 area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46886/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Jan 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special education taskforce in Dublin 15 will report and make proposals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (22 Jan 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans are in place to repair the roof of a school (details supplied); if so, when these repairs will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1115/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to details how much training is provided to Departmental staff answering phone calls from the public; what that training consists of; if they are trained in means-testing and how different payments interact; the amount of time that elapses between the beginning of training and those staff members receiving calls from the...

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The compensation for the people who have been suffering for two weeks must come from the vast profits of the ESB, not from increased prices for customers, as has been talked about in the media. We need investment to ensure it does not happen again that people, in 2025, are waiting weeks upon weeks to have their power restored. I raise the situation of schools. In many areas, children,...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I think everybody found it surreal and, I am sure, bloodcurdling - anybody with a humanitarian bone in their body - to hear the President of the US sitting beside his open fire, announcing his intention to carry out the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and announcing the intention of the US to get a slice of the action in Gaza for his real estate profiteering, with Netanyahu, the wanted war criminal,...

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will stick to one topic, namely, the issue of special education and its provision generally. Two words not in the programme for Government are "teacher shortage". The Government does not seem to realise this is a problem. It is an emergency and a crisis. I do not have time to develop that statement, but it is incredible that it is not mentioned or dealt with. We have a phenomenon in...

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The ones that have agreed to take the classes should be funded.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is unfortunate the Minister for Justice had to leave because I wanted to ask him and the Government what laws they will bring in to stop the relentless parade of misogyny we see in the courts. Yesterday, a woman said she was broken twice after she watched a garda who carried out multiple sexual assaults against her and falsely imprisoned her on the job in a Garda station when she was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the workers here tonight. It is not easy to come here after being on a picket line for two days in the cold. BIMM is exploiting the talent and creativity of these musicians and lecturers. The BIMM website boasts about unrivalled industry connections, experienced tutors and how the institute opens doors into the music industry. The restructuring that is happening is classic race...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In his reply the Minister said that TUD has engaged with BIMM on a number of courses but quality assurance, blah, blah, blah, is all interlinked. How can there be quality assurance if people's pay and conditions are driven down? This is the Minister's responsibility. TUD could employ the staff at BIMM if the Minister gave that direction and made it happen. He could make that happen. A...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Publicly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. What are the Taoiseach's intentions in relation to the traditional St. Patrick's Day visit to the White House? This morning, we read that the Taoiseach intends to send a high-powered delegation, particularly focused on business. Is there anything that President Trump can do that will change that and prevent the Taoiseach from going? Is there any fresh hell...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: President Trump actually announced his intention to unleash hell on Gaza over the weekend. Ireland does not have a lot of power globally. However, we do have the power not to give President Trump a photo op on an important day for Ireland globally and not to normalise what he is doing. Does the Taoiseach agree that what President Trump is proposing for Gaza is ethnic cleansing and that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach did not answer the central question I asked. Does he agree that Trump's plan for Gaza is ethnic cleansing? Yes or no. Can he answer that question? I do not agree that we should have an economic policy that is dependent on staying silent on genocide. An economic policy which requires that is a flawed one. When the Taoiseach refers to consolidating the ceasefire, what...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach pointed to the roof after 7 October.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is Trump's plan ethnic cleansing or not?