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

Ruth Coppinger: What kind of supports is the Department looking to give to SNAs?

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

Ruth Coppinger: This is good, right, and we have heard about the review and the overall look at that again. However, in 2020 their union had to launch a campaign, Respect for SNAs. We are into 2025 now. Why has it taken this long? Can I finish with one specific question? The new SNA review guidelines are causing a lot of concern due to the narrow eligibility and the restricting of schools' flexibility....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [49986/25]

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to welcome the families and relatives to the Gallery. They are here because of what is happening in Palestine. Yesterday, a nurse was shot on the job. I have seen kids carrying other kids on their backs. It is a common sight. The worst I saw was a kid carrying a shrouded dead sibling on their back. The fact that governments have allowed this genocide to happen is a stain on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There are other people who cannot go to the shop.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: No, I cannot. I am suffering this every day.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Aviation Industry (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I suffer drones over my head.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a direct route from the Dublin 15 area to Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51872/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I note Fianna Fáil had a meeting on drones in Dundrum. My question relates to a direct bus route from the greater Blanchardstown area to Dublin Airport. Thousands of people work in the airport and many people have to get to it. Recently, Ongar Tidy Towns has been informed by the NTA that the expected roll-out of an N8 service has now been delayed for at least two years.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Fair play to the civil servant who padded out that answer for the Minister because my question was not about BusConnects. Rather, it was about a specific issue. The Minister dealt with that issue in a couple of sentences and the information is very similar. They have been told the project will be delivered in quarter 3 of 2026, which is next year. Given that people have been told it is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: A taxi from Ongar to Dublin Airport costs €50 to €65, for example. That is what passengers are being forced to spend. We could eliminate 10,000 to 20,000 car journeys immediately by introducing a direct bus route. It should be an absolute priority. Residents have suggested that the Minister might consider extending the W4 route to the airport until the N8 is finally rolled...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The last thing we need are people on hunger strike outside the gates of Leinster House, especially people who were incarcerated by this State, some of them as children, for 16 years. I cancelled what I had planned to raise today because I met those people - the three women and one man - yesterday. The things they are looking for are so basic it is embarrassing. These include access to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----these people out of the usual redress and this is why they are outside the gates. We need action.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Do you think they have not? Get a grip.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if an employer, when reimbursing an employee the 24 hour Revenue Commissioners’ approved unvouched subsistence allowance rate of currently €205.53, requires from the employee, not a full vouching, but the evidence that they incurred an overnight stay in a hotel via a receipt; if this employer evidencing requirement will give rise to any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (1 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will bring forward legislative change to allow for those who are pregnant or who have recently given birth to apply for a postal vote in all elections and referenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52166/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Six months. I probably could. I thank the Chair. It was important to come into the committee meeting today, because out of all of the issues that I have raised relating to sexual or gender-based violence and the ten-point plan that we proposed, the counselling notes is the one single thing that has agitated survivors, therapists and the general population the most, not anything else. I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on the Dart+ project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51873/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on the implementation on the national policy framework for unmanned aircraft systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consultation he will have with residents regarding regulations for unmanned commercial delivery drones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51875/25]