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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1192. To ask the Minister for Health if provision of PGT-M screening is being considered as part of the consultations referred to in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 2472 of 29 April 2025; if there is an indicative timeline on these consultations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (8 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 412. To ask the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista building has been approved by HSE estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23008/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: During the general election, you could not move but for tripping over another promotion of €200-a-month childcare. Every party on the Government side was at it. That is what happens in elections and now, unfortunately, we have been told this promise will fade into dust and there will be no movement on it in the upcoming budget. It is extremely cynical and stressful for parents. We...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: You do not do anything about it.

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We need action.

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This is one of the most upsetting things that has happened in this country that anyone here is likely to be speaking on for a long while. Grace, as she has been called, was intellectually and physically disabled after complications at birth. She is non-verbal and was born to a teenage mother in a mother and baby home. That is a very difficult start in life. She was then placed in foster...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Has the Minister met the councils?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: With regard to the issues raised about the favoured candidate for the post, the question was whether the Government will investigate these issues, even if the Minister does not want to answer them right now. We do not need a housing tsar to contact Fingal County Council, have a meeting, discuss its needs and then organise the payment for whatever needs to be done. We do not need a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Have those meetings taken place? If they have not, will the Minister organise that they will take place?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Would the Minister agree that his Government's record on housing over the first 100 days has been an unmitigated disaster? A total of 15,376 people are in emergency accommodation, housing completions are down by 6.7% and social and affordable targets are down by 18%. These are figures that the Government knew about before the election but has not yet explained why it stayed quiet about...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on the updating of the current voting register given the issues around inaccuracies that have been raised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review the policy around providing alternative ways to vote before and on the day of elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 427. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of complaints made against a service (details supplied) over the past five years, by year and unit, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 428. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the 286 letters mislaid by a hospital administration in early 2021, including if any of those were referrals; if this affected the National Gender Service, and any patient impact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista Building has been approved by HSE Estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22112/25]

International Workers’ Day: Statements (1 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is regrettable the Minister is not here. There are very few debates or discussions on workers in this Dáil and he should be here. I particularly wanted to ask him - he should come back before the end of the debate - to apologise to workers for the insult he delivered to teachers, who are a huge section of the workforce in this country. He invited somebody who was basically an...

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

Ruth Coppinger: I hope the Tánaiste can clarify exactly what our position on the Palestinian state is because I am genuinely baffled. On one hand, we recognise the Palestinian state, we support the Palestinian people and we support the ICJ case but, on the other hand, Congressman Brian Mast was hosted in Leinster House last week. He believes all Palestinians are guilty, including Gazan babies. We...

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

Ruth Coppinger: Why are protestors being attacked by the Garda?

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

Ruth Coppinger: I hope the Tánaiste looks into it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (1 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 377. To ask the Minister for Health to review the policy of the roll out of the new functional neurological disorder team and expand its roll out to a wider area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22014/25]