Results 101-120 of 6,779 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Community development is also important in large suburbs and urban areas. As the Taoiseach knows, there has been massive development in Dublin West, in many cases without the necessary transport and schools. We have large populations but now we have no transport links between many of the suburbs. Could the Taoiseach look into a situation? There are 11 families in Tyrrelstown who cannot...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will next meet. [25531/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Chartered flights.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The Government's new policy on justice and migration is to increase the number of deportations, particularly by using chartered flights. The Minister goes on social media to announce that a charter flight has taken place. Is this not virtue signalling to the increased racism that there is in society and to the far right? We have already seen this week the backing down from a migration...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will meet next. [25530/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 336. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will expand eligibility for the disabled drivers and passengers scheme to include people living with scoliosis and recipients of corrective spinal fusion surgery who have been left with permanent impairments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25573/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support giving public sector status to all secretaries and caretakers in schools giving them the same access to protections and pensions as other workers in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25800/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (20 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 798. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in introducing health information labelling of alcohol products; when labelling is likely to be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25245/25]
- Common Agricultural Policy and Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan: Statements (15 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Ireland's agricultural industry is an environmental laggard. Agriculture here and in the EU is based on a capitalist economic model of industrial-scale farming that is hugely unsustainable, produces environmental destruction and fails to provide sustainable and secure incomes for small and medium farmers in Ireland and globally into the future. CAP is part of that unsustainable global...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence have been for many years seeking a ban on counselling notes being used in trials because it is so traumatising and damaging. This weekend, Jacqueline Connolly, the sister of Clodagh Hawe, who was murdered along with her children by her husband, spoke about a priest who pleaded confessional privilege who had vital information relating to those...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: We need an end to this practice, not to leave it in the hands of a judge.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The mere fact-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: -----one's counselling notes can be seized is what is traumatic and damaging.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am just finishing the sentence.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I was interrupted because they were all talking during it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I was not sure if the Taoiseach could hear me, so I stopped.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: And it is not good enough. It is not ending the practice. It is just-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: But they clearly are.