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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 2577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to those students fleeing Palestine; if he will lay out plans to increase supports going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (8 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 412. To ask the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista building has been approved by HSE estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on the updating of the current voting register given the issues around inaccuracies that have been raised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review the policy around providing alternative ways to vote before and on the day of elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 427. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of complaints made against a service (details supplied) over the past five years, by year and unit, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 428. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the 286 letters mislaid by a hospital administration in early 2021, including if any of those were referrals; if this affected the National Gender Service, and any patient impact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista Building has been approved by HSE Estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22112/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [22105/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Care of older people is very important and is generally privatised in terms of nursing homes. The workers who provide this service in nursing homes are essential workers. Many of them were brought over on a special work permit in which the Government was involved. I ask the Taoiseach on a humanitarian basis to listen to the issues raised by these workers. Their wages are too low to allow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [19931/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The UK Supreme Court judgment on the definition of a woman impacts trans and intersex people in Northern Ireland. Many of them are living in fear and being driven out of public life, which is the intent of the judgment. The DUP has said that it will look at guidelines for schools, which means there could be further attacks on the rights of trans people. Many of these are eligible to be...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Once again, this is a Bill that has had to be brought before the Dáil because the Irish Government persists with this illusion that people have the right to union representation. It is Orwellian that you have the right to join a union but your employer does not have to recognise it, so you really do not have a right. If the Government is serious about workers' rights, this is a key...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We cannot wait.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence have been for many years seeking a ban on counselling notes being used in trials because it is so traumatising and damaging. This weekend, Jacqueline Connolly, the sister of Clodagh Hawe, who was murdered along with her children by her husband, spoke about a priest who pleaded confessional privilege who had vital information relating to those...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We need an end to this practice, not to leave it in the hands of a judge.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The mere fact-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----one's counselling notes can be seized is what is traumatic and damaging.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am just finishing the sentence.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I was interrupted because they were all talking during it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I was not sure if the Taoiseach could hear me, so I stopped.