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Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: No. Could more than five minutes be allocated to make statements on the referendum? Only five minutes per political grouping is available and the scale of what happened on Friday and Saturday is so huge that we need time to assimilate it, for example, before the Minister publishes the legislation.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Please, I am allowed a minute to explain why I think it is important.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputies and Senators who took the "No" position may want to decide they want to live in a different time zone to the one they advocated. Primarily, however, this Dáil should discuss the massive numbers who turned out to vote, the huge increase of 100,000, almost 10% more than voted before and the revolutionary response they gave in respect of church and State. Could ten minutes be...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Martin should have thought about that five years ago and we would not have this.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A burning issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It sounds like he is preparing for a "Yes" vote.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to ask about the implementation of the Sláintecare report. In the Joint Committee on Health this morning and as reported on the front of The Times, Ireland edition the president of the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine has said that cost was the main reason the testing of cervical smears was outsourced to American labs. It gives an insight into how the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: When the Taoiseach is thanking the parties that support the referendum he might mention parties like Solidarity-People Before Profit and others in this Dáil that brought repeal Bills here, whose members have not voted down repeal Bills and whose members are not out campaigning against repeal. In 48 hours, people will have begun voting in the referendum on the eighth amendment. Will...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We saw in the debate last night just how backward and reactionary the "No" side is. There are some people in this Dáil who claim to love both but they were not showing too much love in several debates in this Dáil. For example, one of the Deputies in a debate in 2010 on social welfare talked about the elephant in the room, the considerable number of young women "many of whom are...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: That is how much they love both, and we heard all the guff in 1983 about how they were going to help people. I will finish by mentioning one inaccuracy that needs to be corrected and it concerns the abortion pill. Based on two of the websites, Women on Web and Women Help Women, five people a day in Ireland are estimated to use these pills. We should be accurate and not scare people...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the killing of Palestinians at the Gaza border on 14 May 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22037/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take to demonstrate opposition to the killing of Palestinians at the Gaza border on 14 May 2018; and if he will report on his contact with the Israeli authorities on this matter. [22038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 159. To ask the Minister for Health when he or his predecessor's attention was drawn to the problems with CervicalCheck false negative results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21700/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if he or one of his predecessors were informed of the media strategy for reporting on the number of false negative cervical checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21701/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn to the prospect of legal action from laboratories that are involved in CervicalCheck; when his attention was drawn to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21702/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn to the different levels of detection rates in the three different laboratories performing CervicalCheck; if an investigation was done into possible causes for the differences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21703/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the level of detection rates for cervical checks in the different laboratories performing same in each of the years 2008 to 2017 inclusive. [21704/18]

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “performance of their duties.”“— cease the policy of outsourcing and tendering for this programme; — repatriate the screening programme to Ireland under the control of publicly funded not-for-profit laboratories; — fund all costs necessary to retest any woman affected, and ensure that women whose...

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I have only four minutes but it is completely insufficient for the points which I want to raise. A substantial number of memos were sent around from the Minister's office. Over seven months, these memos record that the issue of non-disclosure to victims was discussed in several meetings by dozens of people. We are meant to believe that the previous Minister for Health, now the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (15 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the timing of citizenship ceremonies will be examined in cases in which a ceremony takes place after the deadline for the supplementary register; if other options will be made available for persons wishing to take their oath of affirmation prior to the deadline in view of the inability of new citizens to update their...