Results 141-160 of 6,580 for speaker:Ruth Coppinger
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: We know.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is up to your Government. It is all about money.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Do not use your brother now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It is called "passionate".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: They can ask questions at their party meeting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: They have the Fine Gael Party meeting.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: The reality is that both areas need secondary schools. I will give the demographics. With all due respect, the Department of Education has had an inglorious history of misplanning educational need in this area and, I am sure, in many others. Ongar, where Ériu Community College is currently located, had the highest birth rate in 2024, according to the CSO. Some 32% of the population...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: There are TDs in the area from the Minister's own party demanding the schools. This is not just the Opposition. There is unanimity that both locations need schools. If the Minister is telling parents they have to go to Tyrellstown from the Ongar catchment, which is a different catchment, does she have transport lined up? I have already sent her Department a group of parents who have no...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she agrees that the demographics are such in Dublin 15 that there is a need to maintain a school (details supplied) at its existing location and for extra capacity in the Tyrellstown area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7671/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I know the Minister is new to her brief so she may not be familiar with these locations. With regard to Ériu Community College, the Department of Education took an arbitrary decision to move the school from its temporary location to an area 8 km away until such time as it gets its permanent location. The Minister knows that in a suburban area of Dublin, that has a huge impact. I ask...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that there is provision of a multigendered and multidenominational secondary school in the Ashtown and Pelletstown areas of Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8535/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress of the Dublin 15 taskforce on special education places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8536/25]
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: -----or the Independents who are always looking for speaking time could be bothered to be here.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: It does not send a very good signal that the Minister cares about this issue when only one Member from the Government side sat through this debate; it is actually an insult. Obviously, a few Members have come in now for Leaders' Questions. I want to run through some of the issues the Minister of State raised. Regarding the counselling notes, the Minister said earlier that there were no...
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: He is not here now. That is not good.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: He should be listening to the whole debate.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I apologise; I did not realise I was out of time. I can take this up later. May I just mention that we have the brother of Valerie French here today? It is very important that Valerie's law is moved on and enacted.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that gender-based violence is a global pandemic and the greatest threat to the health of women and girls worldwide, a woman or girl is killed by a partner or family member every 10 minutes; in this State: — since 1996, 274 women have died violently, up to 7th February, 2025; — 52 per...
- Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: I am tempted to talk about child school places, but I want to talk about adult disabled people because it has been almost one year since the care referendum this Government lost because disabled people got organised online and actively and defeated the care referendum whether we like it or not. They then went on to defeat the Green Paper which was another Thatcherite plan of the previous...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.