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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach should deal with the issues.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: These tales are so interesting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [9485/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the impact on wellness of an increased militaristic policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Militaristic policy. It is proposed that Ireland's budget for military spending will eventually increase from €1.3 billion to €3 billion. The decision to drop the triple lock is coming at the expense of people on lower incomes, education, disability, housing, refuges for domestic violence, etc. Earlier, the Taoiseach bemoaned that we are living in a world that is becoming...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is this good for wellness?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: And on St. Patrick’s day?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 15. To ask the Taoiseach the way the new disability unit within his Department will function. [7941/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It has been a year since the fateful referendum on disability, where disabled people chose to organise against that referendum to bring home the State's responsibility. What has the Taoiseach done in that year? I will just mention my own local area because of time constraints. Danu special school, the only special school in all of Dublin West, promised places to students for September...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will first register that we are again here, months after the general election, to make statements. We need to move on. The Government is complaining about a lack of Dáil business. We are making statements into a void and nothing will actually happen afterwards. I live in a working class community where crime is an issue and I represent many communities where it is an issue....

International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It does seem like a bit of a pointless exercise, to be frank, to be making statements into the void but how and ever, we shall plough on. In regard to International Women's Day, far from the flowers and candy, in Italy there will be a general strike to coincide with International Women's Day, involving transport, education, healthcare and other workers. In Argentina, tens of thousands will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage further with an institute (details supplied) to ensure that courses funded under the free fees' initiative and therefore eligible for the €1,000 reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9916/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Civil Registration Service (6 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that the Civil Registration Service online appointment booking system requests that interpreters be present for any language other than English, despite the official status of the Irish language; if she will confirm that appointments can be conducted in Irish without interpretation; if she will confirm that Irish sign language will be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Civil Registration Service (6 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 455. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the criteria for determining if a person applying for marriage has a sufficient level of English or Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10513/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: You did not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The topics discussed during the EU leaders' retreat included an arming up of Europe, and also relations with the US. I want the Taoiseach to comment on how he thinks his diplomatic mission went in the US. He said that Donald Trump was in pursuit of peace and then about 48 hours later he colluded with an horrific massacre in Gaza in which 400 people died. The Taoiseach smiled and nodded as...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach stayed silent and then joked about his father being a boxer. On St. Patrick's Day, two rapists met each other-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----in the White House, two men found guilty by juries to be rapists. We had the sight on St. Patrick's Day of Conor McGregor representing this country's views. It was an insult to the country. Actually, it was an insult to the Government because he slated it. So much for the Taoiseach's diplomatic mission with Trump. It was an insult to women. When you normalise genocide and misogyny,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I actually asked the Taoiseach before he went how he felt about dealing with a sexual predator like Donald Trump and this was the insult he delivered to the Government and to our people on St. Patrick's Day.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach's visit was completely obliterated and overshadowed by the real Donald Trump.