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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with special needs without school places, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50705/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with special needs who have been offered school places but have been unable to take them up due to a lack of resources in the schools involved, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50706/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Measures (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the progress of legislation to ban trade with the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41833/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the waiting times for people to receive their first driving licences after passing the driving test; if he will consider increasing resources to prevent any backlogs and undue delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41075/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress on the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41042/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the delays at the Land Registry; the initiatives being taken to rectify these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42339/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to intervene in relation to the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41835/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the invalidity pension application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41837/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Paternity Leave (29 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 2404. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on extending the current rate of paternity leave from two weeks to four weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42406/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens who have been arrested and/or charged with supporting a terrorist organisation under the UK’s Terrorism Act for their support for Palestine Action; to outline the consular support the Irish embassy has given to those arrested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50353/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artists' Remuneration (23 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 353. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making permanent the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50004/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider increasing the grants for hearing aids to cover the full cost of the hearing aids; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 189. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the State's participation in NATO's Support and Procurement Agency; for a breakdown of all payments to this agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (25 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 277. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role his Department had in the dispersion of NFL starters kits (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50949/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (25 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons given to his Department for the refusal of a school (details supplied) to sign up to the hot meals scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 348. To ask the Minister for Health to consider approving the use of CAR T-cell therapy in Ireland for those over the age of 26; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51002/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Would the Chair mind telling us the running order?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I have to say that was a strange sole contribution. We have to take people at their word when they come in here. We can assume that SNAs are being given those roles. I have talked to people myself. I congratulate Fórsa on the school secretaries' and caretakers' strike and the progress it made, but during that we spoke to people on the picket lines who talked about principals who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Does Ms McSherry believe that SNAs are sufficiently trained? Does she have any suggestions for the type of training that people could get?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The opening statement says that our education system does not have a difficulty with recruitment or retention when it comes to SNAs. I believe the Department would say the same about teachers as well or certainly the Government does when it gets up to speak. How does the Department reconcile that view with what has been said by parents and here earlier by union representatives in relation...