Results 421-440 of 6,846 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: He is not here now. That is not good.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: He should be listening to the whole debate.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I apologise; I did not realise I was out of time. I can take this up later. May I just mention that we have the brother of Valerie French here today? It is very important that Valerie's law is moved on and enacted.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that gender-based violence is a global pandemic and the greatest threat to the health of women and girls worldwide, a woman or girl is killed by a partner or family member every 10 minutes; in this State: — since 1996, 274 women have died violently, up to 7th February, 2025; — 52 per...
- Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am tempted to talk about child school places, but I want to talk about adult disabled people because it has been almost one year since the care referendum this Government lost because disabled people got organised online and actively and defeated the care referendum whether we like it or not. They then went on to defeat the Green Paper which was another Thatcherite plan of the previous...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am very concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people, as I am sure we all are, but I am also specifically concerned about Irish citizens who the Taoiseach's Department helped to get out of Gaza. In particular, he may recall Ibrahim Alagha, whose family I am sure the Taoiseach and his Department officials played a role in assisting in November 2023. One of the family members got...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 31. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs is taking place. [6172/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 39. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [7940/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I would like to raise with the Taoiseach one very important and particular aspect of healthcare and that is for trans people. I am sure that he, like me, is concerned about the demonisation and erasure of trans people that is going on worldwide. I am sure the Taoiseach would also agree that trans people have a human right to healthcare. The waiting list is a decade long in this State right...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on health is taking place. [6171/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [7939/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: They are being deported, actually.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: This is Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Tomorrow, a briefing will be held by relatives about this matter. Over the past 20 years there has been an absolute explosion in this most deadly, fatal mental illness. Yet, we still only have three beds for people with eating disorders. Some 200,000 people suffer with such disorders. Eight beds were to be opened at Connolly Hospital...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Is that by the end the year?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: All right, go on.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the tendering for research on demand for special school and special class places by the National Council for Special Education, in particular to report on the cost of the project and its timeline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7278/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a suitable school place will be offered to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7581/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to develop and implement a remote working policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7630/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a child (details supplied) who is not receiving education due to their needs; her views on whether this situation needs to be resolved as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7993/25]