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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: What incentives will the Minister provide for public sector workers because of the acute shortages we are seeing? Some 382 roles in the national children's hospital are unfilled. There are 700 vacancies for psychiatric nurses. There are 529 unfilled posts throughout the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Some 500 new social workers are required per year. Some 75% of secondary...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: In our mutual constituency, the resounding message at the doors is that young Castleknock is in Australia. That was said to me. I was told I would not meet anyone over the age of 23 in the area. The Mayor of London estimates that a worker needs £9,600 extra to live in inner London. There is a London weighting allowance, for example, for the NHS, whereby a worker in inner London is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: In other words, the Government is not going to do anything. That is the reality. It is going to stick by these collective agreements that do not serve all groups of workers. I will give the examples of the Tories, who I would not be singing the praises of at any time. Due to the teaching crisis in the UK, a scheme was introduced to make bursaries available. To teach chemistry, for...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to reevaluate the current funding being given to county councils for the tenant-in-situ scheme, increasing the available funding to allow them to complete agreed upon purchases under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27810/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine providing special allowances to public sector workers that take account of increased housing and other costs in many areas in the state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27864/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine pay and other incentives to encourage people to undertake training in areas of staff shortage in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27865/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the need for a pay rise in the public sector to take account of the increased cost of living in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27866/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine a pay cap for CEOs in public sector bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27867/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 556. To ask the Minister for Health to consider expanding the current criteria for publicly funded IVF to include those who require IVF treatment but are not experiencing fertility issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28584/25]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: You are skipping the first one.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is 9% at the moment.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: When will the nursing homes be discussed?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Saudi Arabia?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is true.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Madleen humanitarian flotilla was illegally intercepted by Israel in international waters. This is piracy, it is kidnapping and it is a crime to stop aid being delivered to starving children and people. Four people have been deported, including Greta Thunberg, and eight detained, and we commend their bravery. Three ambulance crew and a journalist were among the murdered last night....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Will he commend the march to Gaza taking place-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: ----- this Thursday by thousands of people, including from Ireland?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It was an humanitarian mission, not a military mission.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It was not symbolic; they had aid.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: He has done nothing for the Palestinian people.