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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The principals will call the Government out now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: They need a school now.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 28. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [9487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Apr 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the maximum permissible age of all taxis impacted by the Covid pandemic by two years, as was done for those registered in 2014 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15209/25]

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will finish by saying that there is no way in which this can go through as it currently stands.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will just finish by saying that this cannot go through as it currently stands because it is discriminatory. I ask the Minister to look at it again. I believe it will be legally challenged. When we bring forward Bills, the Government often says that they will be legally challenged because they are unconstitutional. This Bill goes against the judgment that brought it about in the first...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sharing time with Deputies Boyd Barrett and O'Gorman. I too took a huge interest in this Bill when I saw it come up because of people I know who have been in this situation. 3 o’clock I am delighted that there will be a change whereby cohabitees will now be considered equal to people who are married because they feel the exact same impact from a bereavement. I really...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive received confirmation of his driving test date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14785/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the overall budget given to the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme, in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the acquisition cost guidelines will be released to local authorities; if he will insure that these guidelines are publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14717/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: You do not respect us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Michael Lowry, the question I asked?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: You put the Ceann Comhairle in position.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Today in my Leaders’ Questions, I wanted to raise the absolutely desperate situation in Palestine, the Government’s failure to even meet the UN special rapporteur in Leinster House last week and issues such as the special needs crisis, the health workers and so many other issues but today we have to come back to this again because of what happened yesterday. Comments have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It strikes me that the Ceann Comhairle is a woman who knows her own mind and took a decision yesterday, unfortunately, to co-operate with what was a very co-ordinated move not to allow Order of Business properly, to jettison Questions on Promised Legislation and so on. However, I want to move the focus back on the Taoiseach because he knew that these proposals were opposed by the Opposition...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is it the Lowry lackies, the Government, or people who actually care about the Palestine solidarity movement? That is who. Who is more likely to really interrogate the Government on a whole range of issues? This is the Government preparing itself for unpopular decisions that it will have to take on water charges, cost of living, the triple lock, militarisation but today and next...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: He is saying we are making a mountain out of a molehill. This is about him cutting the Opposition’s rights and entitlements to interrogate him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is there any chance of answering the question about Michael Lowry?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Once again, the Taoiseach deflects completely -----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and does not answer the question about Michael Lowry and doing business with him. Michael Lowry who, as I said, was found by a tribunal to have received payments in the order of at least £180,000 from somebody he gave a mobile phone licence to and who is now a multi billionaire. You do not get more corrupt than that and the Taoiseach has no qualms.