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

Ruth Coppinger: They control the agenda-----

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

Ruth Coppinger: -----so they should give it up with the "get on with the work".

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

Ruth Coppinger: Because you did not put that on the agenda.

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

Ruth Coppinger: What about your part in it?

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I commend Deputy Healy on bringing this motion seeking to make housing an emergency. I am gobsmacked. Here we are again looking at a sole face over on the backbenches. Not only is housing not an emergency for the Government, it is not even a priority. The Minister did not even use his full time. He had three minutes left. None of the backbenchers who have been talking about wanting to...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Are they private homes?

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In this debate on youth crime, there has not been much emphasis on the huge danger of violent misogyny and the targeting of young boys to essentially hate women and blame them for the situation they face. "Adolescence", a series on Netflix, has opened up a big discussion in society around this. The plot is very reminiscent of the horrific killing of Ana Kriégel in this country. We...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 28. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [9487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the maximum permissible age of all taxis impacted by the Covid pandemic by two years, as was done for those registered in 2014 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15209/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (2 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is intended to provide funding through his Department to ensure that the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme will pay pension increases to CIÉ pensioners, taking into account that they have not received a pension increase since 2008; alternatively whether this pension scheme will be incorporated into the general public service...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Human Rights (2 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is not acting in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, given that the bank is facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds in EU Member States, despite the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and the ongoing South...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claimants of the widow’s pension who were separated or divorced in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and in to date 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16154/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [13975/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I, too, want to formally send our very best wishes to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I want to ask what kind of monitoring there is on the well-being of children, particularly disabled and vulnerable children, in our children’s hospitals. Will there be any accountability by successive Ministers for the fact that the HIQA report published today outlines how there was no written approval for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What is the problem with that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with transport will meet next. [13703/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is important to mark a situation where the right to travel of all citizens no longer exists. Trans and non-binary people were issued with a warning in the past ten days from the authorities in Ireland that if travelling to the US, the traveller's biological sex at birth should not differ from the sex on their passport. They were told by the authorities here to contact the US Embassy if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Could I make a point of order?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Could I clarify whether any Deputy can just jump in on anyone's question? Does that mean people like me who have listed a question and waited all night to ask it might not be heard tonight? Is that the case?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I listed five questions and I got only one of them in. I ask that people would please stop jumping in on them.