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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Unfortunately, in Blanchardstown we have been suffering with this for more than a year and a half and nobody is listening. Manna Drone Delivery began operating in Blanchardstown and it, apparently, has 170,000 drone flights done. The plan is for 2 million. The company has now linked up with the massive multinational, Deliveroo. Let us be clear: the company is not delivering blood or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the interim funding for multi-unit development defects remediation; the total number of schemes that have applied; the schemes approved; the total number of units involved in each scheme; the moneys approved, allocated and spent to date in 2025; and when works are expected to commence and conclude on each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate for and implement a comprehensive remediation scheme, including retrospective payments, for defective apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider altering the criteria for the means test for fuel allowance to allow a greater income threshold for those living alone considering the fixed cost of maintaining a household; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30738/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is again very unfortunate the Minister is not here for a debate on a slew of new measures affecting the whole rental sector.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: He is on the "Six One" news. He is not here, is what I said and the debate has been going on for an hour and a half.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We have not had a chance to question the housing Minister, that I can recall, since coming into this Dáil. I wanted to register that. We have already seen him raising this great idea of the housing tsar. Somebody commented that we have not seen a tsar disappear so quickly since 1917. That idea has gone. I will address some of the measures announced today. No-fault evictions have...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, there is not a quorum here. I need to leave. I have been here for a few hours. I am calling a quorum.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Well, I am leaving now. The Government could not even get a quorum for housing statements.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There were worrying and horrific scenes in Ballymena last night of hundreds, potentially thousands, of people gathering. It would appear some racist attacks were committed on homes. It follows an alleged serious sexual assault on a teenage girl, and I extend my solidarity to that girl and her family. Two teens have been accused, and as soon as it became potentially the case that they were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 29. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the shared island initiative. [29590/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is like what Trump is doing, is it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [26852/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There was a march on Saturday through the streets of Dublin in horrendous weather. It was organised by parents, especially mothers, in a group called FUSS and Equality in Education Ireland. They are ordinary women who have had to spend their whole lives organising to get rights for their children. Many of them still do not have school places and many parents have contacted me who are in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach's Government promised 12 families that they would have places in the school last September. All those children are sitting at home or doing another year in preschool because Government failed to deliver. All that is needed are modular buildings but we have to be honest here: this is linked to chronic underinvestment in the public sector and to the housing crisis. We cannot...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: One of the most brutal things I have seen is the picking up by ICE of children and people off the streets of the US yet how far away from it are we given what happened here last week where 35 people, including five people, were deported to Nigeria? The report from the children's school principal and those who knew them said that they had been fully integrated in the school for three years...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a shame. The Minister was asked what the alternative to deporting children was. Maybe listen to what Simon Harris said when children were deported a few years back and he rallied behind them but the Taoiseach has just decided that this is popular.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Council. [26851/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Madleen humanitarian flotilla was illegally intercepted by Israel in international waters. This is piracy, it is kidnapping and it is a crime to stop aid being delivered to starving children and people. Four people have been deported, including Greta Thunberg, and eight detained, and we commend their bravery. Three ambulance crew and a journalist were among the murdered last night....