Results 61-80 of 6,580 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger

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.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Taoiseach's questions is being halved.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Hundreds of Taoiseach's questions will not be asked. For example, personally, in that slot, I have raised repeal when nobody else in this Dáil was interested. I raised trans healthcare and many other topics that there is no way any of the Taoiseach's backbenchers will ask him about. We heard a lot about the terrible plight of the lonely backbencher. My heart was bleeding until I...

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

Ruth Coppinger: There is this idea that they are in this terrible position. They can speak at any time should they choose to.

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

Ruth Coppinger: I want to finish by saying this is in line with anti-democratic measures that parliaments are taking across Europe. They are using their majorities to cut across the right to protest and democratic rights. They are doing it in the UK today cutting welfare rights-----

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (25 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reports his Department has received regarding elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus among elephants in Dublin Zoo in 2024; the steps his Department has taken to care for the animals and deter spread; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13737/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (25 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the checks in place to ensure pig farms in the State maintain the highest animal welfare standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13736/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (25 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the processes that were followed in the decision to allow US military Osprey jets fly over Dublin on 26 August 2023; if safety concerns about the aircraft were known; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the estimated number of ‘Ghost buses’ in the Dublin 15 areas in a news report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13410/25]