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Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and stop the Central Bank of Ireland from processing bonds in Ireland.

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The reason I chose the education committee as a top priority is because education is such a big issue in my constituency of Dublin West and nationally. Education is of huge significance in every aspect of life. I have experience of teaching in an area of what is called disadvantage and of teaching students with additional needs. As a teacher and a parent, I would like to bring this...

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Everybody seemed to agree that a meeting on additional needs right now was a burning issue. What format would that take? We have already had sessions in the Dáil, and I am sure there have been in the Seanad, so there is no point in repetition. It would have to include some groups that were at the coal face of trying to get special education places. Would we discuss that? On other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (21 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the process for naturalisation applications; the duration of this process; if there are any delays to the application of a person (details supplied); to clarify how some applications can take longer than others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26182/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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. [26216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (21 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 151. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the status of the regulations regarding alcohol labelling, which were signed into law by the previous Minister in May 2023, following an extensive notification process to the European Union and the World Trade Organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26107/25]

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I too pay tribute to Cara and her father and all the campaigners and the people who have already slept outside the Dáil this year, Families Unite for Services and Support, FUSS, Equality in Education, ASD15 and the myriad local groups that have been banging on about this issue for a long time. One thing I have learned about neurodivergent, autistic and disabled people is that they hate...

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.