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Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [26853/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The US President and regime are facilitating the carnage that is happening in Gaza. They facilitated it by opening up the prospect of Gaza becoming a tourist place but its Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is also facilitating the starvation of people. Food distribution is being used to kettle Palestinians when they gather at a food place. The director of that operation has resigned. This is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It will be too late.

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We are big traders with Israel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [21096/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The overriding need in our society and in our economy is for housing. The Central Bank's director of financial stability has said 50,000 homes have to be built every year for the next ten years in order to fulfil the need. The targets the Government itself has set go nowhere near this. They are in the 30s of the thousands. Will the Taoiseach accept that the market cannot deliver the scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What about the councils?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There are not enough private companies to build those houses.

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We have seen it all at this stage. We have had unnecessary hip operations, unlicensed springs implanted into children, defective technology being a fixture in operations and we have had Wi-Fi issues. There is something new every week. Now, we have a doctor who, allegedly, referred public patients to their private clinic at the weekend and was paid money by the National Treatment Purchase...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not have time to make all the points I wanted regarding the research. I just want to say what the parents believe needs to be done at this stage. The HSE was proposing a two-stage review, by the CHI first and then by outsiders. That has been completely rejected. They are putting forward the idea of a partial ratified independent scrutiny mechanism, PRISM, as it is called, where the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Reunification (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a very important issue. It is about treating workers in a humanitarian way. We have a huge number of healthcare assistants, mainly working in private nursing homes, who the State brought here on special work permits because it could not find the labour in this country. These people are mainly women and mainly nurses. They are fully qualified nurses who work, if you like, below the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Reunification (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am surprised to hear the review is still under way. People have made submissions. Unite trade union is now organising these workers. This is very positive because migrant workers have not traditionally been able to participate in the trade union movement. It is very difficult and scary for somebody working in a private nursing home to put their head above the parapet. These workers...

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: People often speculate about what they would have done in Nazi Germany or in the 1930s. The answer is that whatever you are doing now is what you would have done then. The Minister of State is in government and has power. I thank the Labour Party for moving this motion. I do not agree with every word it contains, however. There is no global community. That has been utterly exposed....

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will investigate the viability of allowing South African citizens with a visa for the UK to be able to visit the State for a 90-day period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expert and scientific studies his Department has consulted in relation to its badger cull; if he will pause the cull in light of a high number of non-TB infected badgers being killed, as well as other wildlife being killed in traps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27530/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 777. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the policy that excludes adults with spinal muscular atrophy from treatments that are available to those under 18; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27628/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a shortage of Ipratropium Steri Neb (Ipramol), Salbutamol, and Atrovent; and if attempts have been made to address this, in light of the dangerous consequences for those reliant on this medication. [26993/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine providing pay incentives to public sector workers where there are acute recruitment and retention issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28899/25]