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

Ruth Coppinger: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied buses have sufficient facilities for disabled people and people with medical needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 8 September 2025, the specific issues that led the meeting to be suspended without agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52021/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will support an increase in Budget 2025 to the Irish language and Gaeltacht from 0.17% of State spending to 0.4% over a 5 year period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support increasing the number of Irish language medium schools to 20%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider basing Irish-language education on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans and timeline to change regulations for small dwellings, such a portacabins, to be built in residential gardens for caring responsibilities and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51409/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 853. To ask the Minister for Health if she will support the full subsidy of maintenance and reliever therapy inhalers for those with asthma; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51313/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 991. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support the roll-out of free Irish language classes based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to all third level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 992. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support increasing the number of Irish language courses at third level to 5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1003. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will support the restoration of the Gaeltacht housing grant scheme to assist Irish speakers to live in the Gaeltacht; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (30 Sep 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1004. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will support giving powers to Údarás na Gaeltachta to purchase land and houses to provide for housing and other social and cultural facilities. [52053/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste made an infamous promise to parents in 2017 that nobody would be waiting for a scoliosis operation for more than four months. When are we going to reach that point? It seems that 226 children are on the CHI spinal surgery list. In August, 135 were actively waiting, ready to go. The numbers on the spinal outpatient lists are over 461. The CHI spinal surgery management...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There are three issues. Does the Minister have confidence in the clinical lead of the paediatric spinal surgery management unit? This is the person who took Harvey Sherratt off the waiting list without parental knowledge or consent. How many other children were taken off the lists in that way? Second, does the Minister have any knowledge of any other medical devices that have been used...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: So the Minister has confidence in the clinical lead, or does she not?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry; I will clarify. Parents and advocates are asking about three particular issues in this regard. First, they want to know if the Minister has confidence in the clinical lead. Second, which I do not think she referred to either, is she aware of any other devices that have been used in an off-label way - parents have said this - and inserted into children? Third, we all know that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual figures since 2015 for appeals lodged with the social welfare appeals office querying a refusal based on the habitual residence condition, by Irish citizens and non-Irish nationals, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52778/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I know we are a smaller group, but one of the Ministers should be here on budget day to hear what the smaller groups have to say. I mean no offence to the Minister of State.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The absence of the Ministers is not a sign that there is an interest in what we have to say. An independent life is what we all aspire to. What hope can young people have of an independent life and a home of their own after this budget? Two thirds of people under the age of 35 live at home with their parents. What hope can a disabled person have? What hope can a family paying...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (7 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In the old days, housing figures came out and we took them to be public housing figures. I find it actually laughable in recent years the way the housing figures encompass everything that is built in the country and the Government takes the credit. I see this as the Government’s drive to reach the housing targets it missed by pumping money into private developers and construction...