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Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: People often speculate about what they would have done in Nazi Germany or in the 1930s. The answer is that whatever you are doing now is what you would have done then. The Minister of State is in government and has power. I thank the Labour Party for moving this motion. I do not agree with every word it contains, however. There is no global community. That has been utterly exposed....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Reunification (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am surprised to hear the review is still under way. People have made submissions. Unite trade union is now organising these workers. This is very positive because migrant workers have not traditionally been able to participate in the trade union movement. It is very difficult and scary for somebody working in a private nursing home to put their head above the parapet. These workers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Reunification (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a very important issue. It is about treating workers in a humanitarian way. We have a huge number of healthcare assistants, mainly working in private nursing homes, who the State brought here on special work permits because it could not find the labour in this country. These people are mainly women and mainly nurses. They are fully qualified nurses who work, if you like, below the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to reevaluate the current funding being given to county councils for the tenant-in-situ scheme, increasing the available funding to allow them to complete agreed upon purchases under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27810/25]

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We have seen it all at this stage. We have had unnecessary hip operations, unlicensed springs implanted into children, defective technology being a fixture in operations and we have had Wi-Fi issues. There is something new every week. Now, we have a doctor who, allegedly, referred public patients to their private clinic at the weekend and was paid money by the National Treatment Purchase...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not have time to make all the points I wanted regarding the research. I just want to say what the parents believe needs to be done at this stage. The HSE was proposing a two-stage review, by the CHI first and then by outsiders. That has been completely rejected. They are putting forward the idea of a partial ratified independent scrutiny mechanism, PRISM, as it is called, where the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What about the councils?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There are not enough private companies to build those houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The overriding need in our society and in our economy is for housing. The Central Bank's director of financial stability has said 50,000 homes have to be built every year for the next ten years in order to fulfil the need. The targets the Government itself has set go nowhere near this. They are in the 30s of the thousands. Will the Taoiseach accept that the market cannot deliver the scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It will be too late.

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We are big traders with Israel.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [21096/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [25532/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [26853/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The US President and regime are facilitating the carnage that is happening in Gaza. They facilitated it by opening up the prospect of Gaza becoming a tourist place but its Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is also facilitating the starvation of people. Food distribution is being used to kettle Palestinians when they gather at a food place. The director of that operation has resigned. This is...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: So much for freedom of speech.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Babies are dying.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: People are dying.

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to ban the hunting of a fox or foxes; and to provide for related matters. I understand we have an unprecedented situation where a Deputy will be opposing this Bill, but I will come back to it later. With fox hunting banned in England, Scotland and Wales, Ireland has become...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (27 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will investigate the viability of allowing South African citizens with a visa for the UK to be able to visit the State for a 90-day period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27629/25]