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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We cannot wait.

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Once again, this is a Bill that has had to be brought before the Dáil because the Irish Government persists with this illusion that people have the right to union representation. It is Orwellian that you have the right to join a union but your employer does not have to recognise it, so you really do not have a right. If the Government is serious about workers' rights, this is a key...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The UK Supreme Court judgment on the definition of a woman impacts trans and intersex people in Northern Ireland. Many of them are living in fear and being driven out of public life, which is the intent of the judgment. The DUP has said that it will look at guidelines for schools, which means there could be further attacks on the rights of trans people. Many of these are eligible to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [19931/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Care of older people is very important and is generally privatised in terms of nursing homes. The workers who provide this service in nursing homes are essential workers. Many of them were brought over on a special work permit in which the Government was involved. I ask the Taoiseach on a humanitarian basis to listen to the issues raised by these workers. Their wages are too low to allow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [22105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request clarification from the Health Information and Quality Authority regarding the clinical basis and evidence used to describe spina bifida as a "life-limiting condition" in its recent report on paediatric spinal surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24042/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 146. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on reducing the waiting list for accessing Children's Disability Network teams in Dublin West; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24041/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitment made in the 2020 Programme for Government regarding the implementation of an informed consent model for hormone replacement therapy for transgender individuals has been rolled back by the current Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24040/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 210. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request confirmation from Children’s Health Ireland that all paediatric orthopaedic consultants currently operating on children with complex needs, such as spina bifida, have completed the recommended two-year paediatric fellowship training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request from Children’s Health Ireland details of the procedures in place for the handling and storage of medical devices that have failed in paediatric patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 1192. To ask the Minister for Health if provision of PGT-M screening is being considered as part of the consultations referred to in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 2472 of 29 April 2025; if there is an indicative timeline on these consultations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (8 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 412. To ask the Minister for Health if allocation space for the National Gender Service in the Vista building has been approved by HSE estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23008/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: During the general election, you could not move but for tripping over another promotion of €200-a-month childcare. Every party on the Government side was at it. That is what happens in elections and now, unfortunately, we have been told this promise will fade into dust and there will be no movement on it in the upcoming budget. It is extremely cynical and stressful for parents. We...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: You do not do anything about it.

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We need action.

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This is one of the most upsetting things that has happened in this country that anyone here is likely to be speaking on for a long while. Grace, as she has been called, was intellectually and physically disabled after complications at birth. She is non-verbal and was born to a teenage mother in a mother and baby home. That is a very difficult start in life. She was then placed in foster...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Has the Minister met the councils?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: With regard to the issues raised about the favoured candidate for the post, the question was whether the Government will investigate these issues, even if the Minister does not want to answer them right now. We do not need a housing tsar to contact Fingal County Council, have a meeting, discuss its needs and then organise the payment for whatever needs to be done. We do not need a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Have those meetings taken place? If they have not, will the Minister organise that they will take place?