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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36609/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Last but not least. I welcome all the delegates. I apologise because the meeting is so compressed. I was one of the TDs who insisted we have a whole session on special education. We did not envisage the slots for the whole shebang would be squashed into four minutes. The NCSE is coming in separately, which it insisted upon. Ms Cahill and Ms Meehan are heroic. I do not know how they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I thank the witnesses for coming in. With all the things I wanted to ask, it is really unfortunate that this meeting is so short. The first question I will ask is similar to what was asked before. I asked it of the Minister last week and it was asked of the other Minister the week before. The schools are closed. We should know now how many children do not have school places. Is it the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Is it 260 who do not have a place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Mr. Kearney is probably not allowed to say by the Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Okay, so we will still not be told that information. We are dealing with parents who do not have school places. I absolutely appreciate the pressure that the NCSE is under. I often feel that it is easy for Government TDs to focus on the witnesses rather than on their own Ministers, but at the same time, we should be privy to this information. The primary school principals were in and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Is there a difference between religious-run schools and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: At primary level?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: So 50% of primary schools do not have classes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: How many of the sanctioned classrooms that have been talked about will be ready by September? For example, in Dublin 15, it was reported earlier that there were 16 sanctioned additional classes. Will they all be ready and open? There was a list that parents gave, including Libermann school in Dublin and others that are sanctioned. Will the special schools be ready? I know it is hard in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: There was a task force in that area. We had protests and everything last year, so I thought Mr. Kearney might know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: That is a year late, in the sense of places being allocated last year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: No answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: God forbid you would break a law to end the genocide. It would be terrible.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Would you get real?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sure it will go down well on Gript anyway.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s position on secondary schools requiring parents to purchase iPads or specific digital devices, particularly in light of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme; the guidance or oversight her Department provides to ensure that families are not subjected to undue financial pressure due to school-imposed digital...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to simplify the tendering protocol for the free schoolbooks scheme to allow wider access to the scheme for independent bookstores; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36825/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 326. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the decision to not excavate Sean Ross Abbey will be revised; the person who decided that the report findings were not enough to warrant an excavation; the basis for that decision; the alternative action, if any, being taken to account for the over 1,000 missing children from Sean Ross Abbey; if the Government will commit to a...