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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: That is crystal clear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. What are the Taoiseach's intentions in relation to the traditional St. Patrick's Day visit to the White House? This morning, we read that the Taoiseach intends to send a high-powered delegation, particularly focused on business. Is there anything that President Trump can do that will change that and prevent the Taoiseach from going? Is there any fresh hell...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: President Trump actually announced his intention to unleash hell on Gaza over the weekend. Ireland does not have a lot of power globally. However, we do have the power not to give President Trump a photo op on an important day for Ireland globally and not to normalise what he is doing. Does the Taoiseach agree that what President Trump is proposing for Gaza is ethnic cleansing and that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is there some reason the Taoiseach cannot hear me? I said "fresh hell" that he can unleash.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on his dealings with the European Commission and the European Council regarding the Mercosur Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4870/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to repair the roof of a school (details supplied); if so, when these repairs will start; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4868/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will not proceed with the relocation of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4997/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to progress the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4869/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (12 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will change the family reunification policy to allow healthcare assistants from outside the EU/EEA/UK earning €30,000 to bring spouses and children to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4934/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Publicly.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome the workers here tonight. It is not easy to come here after being on a picket line for two days in the cold. BIMM is exploiting the talent and creativity of these musicians and lecturers. The BIMM website boasts about unrivalled industry connections, experienced tutors and how the institute opens doors into the music industry. The restructuring that is happening is classic race...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In his reply the Minister said that TUD has engaged with BIMM on a number of courses but quality assurance, blah, blah, blah, is all interlinked. How can there be quality assurance if people's pay and conditions are driven down? This is the Minister's responsibility. TUD could employ the staff at BIMM if the Minister gave that direction and made it happen. He could make that happen. A...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is unfortunate the Minister for Justice had to leave because I wanted to ask him and the Government what laws they will bring in to stop the relentless parade of misogyny we see in the courts. Yesterday, a woman said she was broken twice after she watched a garda who carried out multiple sexual assaults against her and falsely imprisoned her on the job in a Garda station when she was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when resources such as teachers, special needs assistants and buildings will be supplied to a school (details supplied), permitting each individual offered a place can receive one; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student was offered a school place in a special school (details supplied) when no such place existed [4516/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhound care homes with a dedicated, unique visitor room funded by Rásaíocht Con Éireann that are currently in operation; the total cost to Rásaíocht Con Éireann of such care homes; the number of non-coursing greyhounds homed by the operators of these care homes, by year, for the past...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (11 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Rásaíocht Con Éireann still has no strategic plan in place over two years after the last one expired, almost two years after they were quoted in a national newspaper claiming that such a strategic plan was in the process of being finalised by consultants (details supplied), and 14 months after his...

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The ones that have agreed to take the classes should be funded.

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will stick to one topic, namely, the issue of special education and its provision generally. Two words not in the programme for Government are "teacher shortage". The Government does not seem to realise this is a problem. It is an emergency and a crisis. I do not have time to develop that statement, but it is incredible that it is not mentioned or dealt with. We have a phenomenon in...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I think everybody found it surreal and, I am sure, bloodcurdling - anybody with a humanitarian bone in their body - to hear the President of the US sitting beside his open fire, announcing his intention to carry out the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and announcing the intention of the US to get a slice of the action in Gaza for his real estate profiteering, with Netanyahu, the wanted war criminal,...