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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Gardaí who are corrupt, who pervert the course of justice over and over and over again, should not be awarded a medal of bravery for one act. There was no need. He could have been excluded from the award and the other gardaí could have been presented with their awards. What happened to zero tolerance for gender-based violence when the gardaí who are meant to deal with it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I want to send my solidarity with the girl who apparently was sexual assaulted and to her family. I hope she gets the care as well. I wish to ask the Taoiseach something related to gender-based violence. There was a report by Village magazine and The Ditch yesterday that a garda, who was corrupt and violent towards his wife and another woman, was awarded a medal of bravery from An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Relations (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to ensure the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund is not investing in corporations profiting from trade with Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Birth Certificates (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to register a birth with a different gender other than male and female on a birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57389/25]

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...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I got an acknowledgement.

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 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...

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?