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Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will just finish by saying that this cannot go through as it currently stands because it is discriminatory. I ask the Minister to look at it again. I believe it will be legally challenged. When we bring forward Bills, the Government often says that they will be legally challenged because they are unconstitutional. This Bill goes against the judgment that brought it about in the first...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive received confirmation of his driving test date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14785/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the overall budget given to the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme, in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the acquisition cost guidelines will be released to local authorities; if he will insure that these guidelines are publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14717/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The principals will call the Government out now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: They need a school now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to register an objection to the way things were done last week. Now we are into the situation where we have Michael Lowry sitting very lonely on his own-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: His companion has had to move right up into the corner to disassociate from the absolutely abysmal reputation that the Taoiseach has decided to bring-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: ----- this Government into. This is the first time we will have the cordoning off of time purely for pro-Government TDs to speak, not to be accountable to the Opposition in any way this week. I absolutely do not agree.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 19. To ask the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the co-ordination role of his Department in national security; and when the new national security committee will be established. [13704/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Disgraceful.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The national security of our country is being breached by increased requests for weapons flight exemptions. However, it seems that mothers are the biggest threat to security judging by the actions yesterday. I, too, want to put on the record the utterly outrageous treatment of mothers who gave up Mother's Day to peacefully hold a vigil. I was actually going to attend it myself. They had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Why did this happen at a very peaceful vigil, with displays marking a memorial, in effect, for the people who have been killed in Palestine? These women are nothing but peace-loving. I know many of them personally; one or two live in my constituency.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: If I could just say this, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle: why did the gardaí ask the women why they were supporting Hamas? Obviously, they are not supporting Hamas by objecting to a genocide. Why did the gardaí also ask: "What do you think would happen to you if you were outside the White House right now?" Is this an international policing memo that is being sent, emanating from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is this coming to Ireland as well?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I would like the Taoiseach to object to the way those women were treated.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It was not necessary to do that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Taoiseach go back to the actual protest he was asked about?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What about the Mother's Day protestors who were strip-searched?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There has been a halving of Taoiseach's Questions, a halving of the Order of Business and extra time for a special group, the Michael Lowry group. I remind the House that the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste took the decision to ram through last week's discussion without debate. Michael Lowry, a taker of bribes and of workers' money, is welcomed back into government. Let us be clear as to...