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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: And it is not good enough. It is not ending the practice. It is just-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: But they clearly are.
- Common Agricultural Policy and Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan: Statements (15 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Ireland's agricultural industry is an environmental laggard. Agriculture here and in the EU is based on a capitalist economic model of industrial-scale farming that is hugely unsustainable, produces environmental destruction and fails to provide sustainable and secure incomes for small and medium farmers in Ireland and globally into the future. CAP is part of that unsustainable global...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (13 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request clarification from the Health Information and Quality Authority regarding the clinical basis and evidence used to describe spina bifida as a "life-limiting condition" in its recent report on paediatric spinal surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24042/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (13 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 146. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on reducing the waiting list for accessing Children's Disability Network teams in Dublin West; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24041/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitment made in the 2020 Programme for Government regarding the implementation of an informed consent model for hormone replacement therapy for transgender individuals has been rolled back by the current Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24040/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 210. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request confirmation from Children’s Health Ireland that all paediatric orthopaedic consultants currently operating on children with complex needs, such as spina bifida, have completed the recommended two-year paediatric fellowship training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24043/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request from Children’s Health Ireland details of the procedures in place for the handling and storage of medical devices that have failed in paediatric patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24044/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 1192. To ask the Minister for Health if provision of PGT-M screening is being considered as part of the consultations referred to in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 2472 of 29 April 2025; if there is an indicative timeline on these consultations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24367/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will meet next. [25530/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Government's new policy on justice and migration is to increase the number of deportations, particularly by using chartered flights. The Minister goes on social media to announce that a charter flight has taken place. Is this not virtue signalling to the increased racism that there is in society and to the far right? We have already seen this week the backing down from a migration...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Chartered flights.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will next meet. [25531/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Community development is also important in large suburbs and urban areas. As the Taoiseach knows, there has been massive development in Dublin West, in many cases without the necessary transport and schools. We have large populations but now we have no transport links between many of the suburbs. Could the Taoiseach look into a situation? There are 11 families in Tyrrelstown who cannot...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I too pay tribute to Cara and her father and all the campaigners and the people who have already slept outside the Dáil this year, Families Unite for Services and Support, FUSS, Equality in Education, ASD15 and the myriad local groups that have been banging on about this issue for a long time. One thing I have learned about neurodivergent, autistic and disabled people is that they hate...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 336. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will expand eligibility for the disabled drivers and passengers scheme to include people living with scoliosis and recipients of corrective spinal fusion surgery who have been left with permanent impairments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25573/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support giving public sector status to all secretaries and caretakers in schools giving them the same access to protections and pensions as other workers in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25800/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 798. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in introducing health information labelling of alcohol products; when labelling is likely to be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25245/25]