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- Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: We are allowed to mention that there is an election.
- Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: A Cheann Comhairle, are we not mentioning that there is an election next week? Is that barred?
- Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: But that is why we are here having a debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I thank the witnesses for coming today. This is a very important topic. Everybody has their leaving certificate stories. We all agree that the stress has to be lifted off students. A huge amount of the stress is not just from exams; it is from the high-stakes nature of the leaving certificate. That is not sufficiently discussed. I am completely open to the idea that we do not have the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The ASTI, of which I was a member, voted by two thirds to reject this. It was not even a leadership recommendation. It was a grassroots revolt by teachers on the ground. The executive did not put a position. The TUI had already voted for it. Teachers come out in those numbers and need to be listened to because the ASTI ultimately is the biggest union and represents teachers from the most...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: There have been all these studies at third level. People cannot differentiate between AI and non-AI work. Perhaps Ms Feeney can but teachers on the ground cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Will the teacher be marking all that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: An outsider comes in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The SEC sees the finished product but does not know what this student did, in reality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am glad there has been mention of the course for students with additional needs. Maybe it is something we could look at in more detail at an upcoming committee meeting. I was in touch with parents whose children passed through the entire education system with no curriculum or anything. There were left sitting there in secondary school. It is an issue about which I have asked and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Those modules are in the schools now. When will the NCCA introduce the post of responsibility in schools?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Who runs the programmes in the schools right now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The programmes are in 98 schools out of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: -----thousands of schools that have students with additional needs.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assessments that were carried out in relation to the impact the €500 increase in third level fees would have on accessibility to third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56129/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I want to ask about the cost of going to college, particularly following the budget. In effect, people are now paying €500 more in third level fees. We have a cost-of-living crisis and this is impacting the ability of students and families to afford these costs. The poverty rate has actually increased after the budget by all of the metrics the ESRI has used. People are 2% worse...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: We can all do what we will with figures but the reality is that families and students now are paying €500 more than they were for the last two years. That is the reality because of the removal of the once-off measures and when we take into account the increase in costs, in rents in particular. The average cost of going to college in Dublin, for example, increased this year to...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister is suggesting he might take away the free third level education with his comment there. Yes, there are a couple of issues. It is a bad situation when Young Fine Gael was asking for a €1,500 reduction in fees and only a €500 reduction was given. The union of students in Ireland, AMLÉ, asked for a lot more and has expressed huge disappointment at what the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Does a woman or person abused by someone in the Army have the same rights as other victims? The victims of crime Act 2017 does not apply to the Army. It applies to the Garda but not to the Army. In June, I raised a case here with the Tánaiste about a woman who was stalked, abused and assaulted by an Army officer. He used Army equipment, even an Army grenade, as part of that...