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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What incentives will the Minister provide for public sector workers because of the acute shortages we are seeing? Some 382 roles in the national children's hospital are unfilled. There are 700 vacancies for psychiatric nurses. There are 529 unfilled posts throughout the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Some 500 new social workers are required per year. Some 75% of secondary...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In our mutual constituency, the resounding message at the doors is that young Castleknock is in Australia. That was said to me. I was told I would not meet anyone over the age of 23 in the area. The Mayor of London estimates that a worker needs £9,600 extra to live in inner London. There is a London weighting allowance, for example, for the NHS, whereby a worker in inner London is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: In other words, the Government is not going to do anything. That is the reality. It is going to stick by these collective agreements that do not serve all groups of workers. I will give the examples of the Tories, who I would not be singing the praises of at any time. Due to the teaching crisis in the UK, a scheme was introduced to make bursaries available. To teach chemistry, for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine providing special allowances to public sector workers that take account of increased housing and other costs in many areas in the state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27864/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine pay and other incentives to encourage people to undertake training in areas of staff shortage in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27865/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the need for a pay rise in the public sector to take account of the increased cost of living in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine a pay cap for CEOs in public sector bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 556. To ask the Minister for Health to consider expanding the current criteria for publicly funded IVF to include those who require IVF treatment but are not experiencing fertility issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28584/25]

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

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.