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Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Council. [26851/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: One of the most brutal things I have seen is the picking up by ICE of children and people off the streets of the US yet how far away from it are we given what happened here last week where 35 people, including five people, were deported to Nigeria? The report from the children's school principal and those who knew them said that they had been fully integrated in the school for three years...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a shame. The Minister was asked what the alternative to deporting children was. Maybe listen to what Simon Harris said when children were deported a few years back and he rallied behind them but the Taoiseach has just decided that this is popular.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is like what Trump is doing, is it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [26852/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There was a march on Saturday through the streets of Dublin in horrendous weather. It was organised by parents, especially mothers, in a group called FUSS and Equality in Education Ireland. They are ordinary women who have had to spend their whole lives organising to get rights for their children. Many of them still do not have school places and many parents have contacted me who are in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach's Government promised 12 families that they would have places in the school last September. All those children are sitting at home or doing another year in preschool because Government failed to deliver. All that is needed are modular buildings but we have to be honest here: this is linked to chronic underinvestment in the public sector and to the housing crisis. We cannot...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 29. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the shared island initiative. [29590/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There were worrying and horrific scenes in Ballymena last night of hundreds, potentially thousands, of people gathering. It would appear some racist attacks were committed on homes. It follows an alleged serious sexual assault on a teenage girl, and I extend my solidarity to that girl and her family. Two teens have been accused, and as soon as it became potentially the case that they were...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, there is not a quorum here. I need to leave. I have been here for a few hours. I am calling a quorum.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Well, I am leaving now. The Government could not even get a quorum for housing statements.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is again very unfortunate the Minister is not here for a debate on a slew of new measures affecting the whole rental sector.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: He is on the "Six One" news. He is not here, is what I said and the debate has been going on for an hour and a half.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We have not had a chance to question the housing Minister, that I can recall, since coming into this Dáil. I wanted to register that. We have already seen him raising this great idea of the housing tsar. Somebody commented that we have not seen a tsar disappear so quickly since 1917. That idea has gone. I will address some of the measures announced today. No-fault evictions have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Unfortunately, in Blanchardstown we have been suffering with this for more than a year and a half and nobody is listening. Manna Drone Delivery began operating in Blanchardstown and it, apparently, has 170,000 drone flights done. The plan is for 2 million. The company has now linked up with the massive multinational, Deliveroo. Let us be clear: the company is not delivering blood or...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I did not have time to read the Minister of State's substantial prepared answer but the Department of Transport has known about this because residents have been in contact. The Minister, Deputy Chambers, is also based in the area and replied to residents last August. I warn people in Dublin city that this is what they are in for. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it seems, will let these...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister of State put the matter on the transport committee's agenda?

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach gets annoyed when we use the word “complicit”. I believe the Minister does too. What does the word “complicit” mean? I looked it up again before I came to the Chamber. It means “involved in, or knowing something is wrong or unlawful”. The Minister knows something is wrong and unlawful and he has a big chance to do something about...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Security (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 49. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [29592/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he is taking to mitigate the effect of airport noise for people living near the airport given a recent report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30492/25]