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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [33614/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: For a year and a half, the people of Dublin West have been guinea pigs for drone infrastructure. The potential for drones to do very important work for humans is definitely there, such as emergency relief, medicine, reaching isolated places due to geography and so on. Such new infrastructure should be with community assent and approval and not inflicted with no recourse by private companies...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [32399/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Ireland is becoming the most expensive country in Europe to go to college. With the threatened withdrawal of the €1,000 assistance to parents, this will further be the case. Parents and students are making CAO decisions now about whether or not they can limit or pick cheaper courses or courses nearer to where they live, but the Taoiseach will not decide until July. Some 100,000...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 801. To ask the Minister for Health to consider expanding the free HRT scheme to include those treatments that are not covered under the drug payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37378/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sure it will go down well on Gript anyway.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: God forbid you would break a law to end the genocide. It would be terrible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Would you get real?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: No answer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s position on secondary schools requiring parents to purchase iPads or specific digital devices, particularly in light of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme; the guidance or oversight her Department provides to ensure that families are not subjected to undue financial pressure due to school-imposed digital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to simplify the tendering protocol for the free schoolbooks scheme to allow wider access to the scheme for independent bookstores; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36825/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 326. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the decision to not excavate Sean Ross Abbey will be revised; the person who decided that the report findings were not enough to warrant an excavation; the basis for that decision; the alternative action, if any, being taken to account for the over 1,000 missing children from Sean Ross Abbey; if the Government will commit to a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to revise the mother and baby home redress scheme to include those who spent less than six months in a mother and baby home institution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36723/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 365. To ask the Minister for Health if the new national drugs strategy will include a comprehensive policy on tackling alcohol consumption; if this will be prioritised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36837/25]

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 21: In page 23, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Review of provisions of Act 20. The Minister shall, not later than 12 months after the commencement of this Act, carry out a review of the operation of this Act, and in particular the impact of the definitions of “civil partner”, “widow” and “widower”...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 22: In page 23, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Review of provisions of Act 20. The Minister shall, not later than 12 months after the commencement of this Act, carry out a review of the operation of this Act.”.

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This shows part of the problem with the changes the Minister is making to the Bill. When he says that the Department is not going to carry out investigations or be intrusive, I do not mean any offence but the Department does carry out investigations into other aspects of social welfare. We debated a lot of the issues in the groupings of amendments. I am a bit perplexed as to why the...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry; what are they?

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Amendment No. 1 is different from the others in that it is asking for due diligence to be done before a Bill is brought in. It should be the norm. The Minister is acting as if it is unusual to ask for a report on the impact of a Bill. He should have done that previously. TDs from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and other TDs will troop into the House tonight without having a clue what they...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(3) Before this Act comes into operation the Minister shall publish a report which outlines the following: (a) the degree of financial dependence that families with divorced or separated parents have on those parents; (b) an overview of the legal issues with not providing the same level of...