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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome our witnesses. We had representatives from the Department at a previous meeting and the NCCA as well. I made the point that, as a parent and having been a teacher of leaving certificate students, I have had insight from both sides of this, in that I have seen the stress on students and also how teachers are being made to deal with the demands of the leaving certificate as well. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay. We know ASTI members did not vote to accept these reforms as they are proposed. That was despite not having any recommendation by the leadership, so this came very much from a groundswell of teachers. I think that would be fair to say by anyone's metric. What sort of conditions of work are now being tied in with acceptance of this for the ASTI membership?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: That led to the Department having to pause this for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Did the Department not agree to stretch it out a bit more?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Department has not even done that yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I will raise the issue of AI. My experience in the Dáil is that the Government is in thrall to AI. That is obvious from any discussion that comes up about data centres or AI. AI is killing critical thinking and creativity and it is being designed by billionaires whose ultimate aim is to get rid of a lot of jobs. We are seeing that already in many sectors where AI has been introduced....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Would the TUI look into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am interested to hear how the union representatives feel about the biggest change to the leaving certificate being introduced in the midst of a chronic teacher recruitment and retention crisis. The schools in my constituency are in an urban area of Dublin where rents are high. I am hearing stories of massive teacher shortages in a whole range of subjects. Obviously this will impact on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: If somebody in a school with a teacher shortage cannot get help with their science project or French project because the school cannot get a language teacher, is that going to be taken into account at the end of the year in the marks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It means that urban, working-class schools will be hit again. Every school is suffering but they are suffering the most.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the frequency of the 39A bus service given issues surrounding reliability (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57535/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Section 4.4 of SI 146/2000 in practice obliges an employer to permit an employee to be represented by a trade union official of their choosing in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sport and Recreational Development (22 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the costs his Department had in the dispersion of NFL starter kits (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57553/25]

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There is a social crisis, an eviction epidemic, in Dublin 15, up the road from the Minister. The Minister knows it well. It relates to the decisions taken in the budget to give huge VAT cuts to developers rather than finance local authorities to build. There is a document from Fingal County Council about section 28 guidelines and housing growth requirements in Fingal County Council. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: They do not have the money for that, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [52038/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: A document was produced by Fingal County Council which identifies land banks, including one in Dublin 15 which could accommodate 20,000 homes. Today, I received a reply from Fingal County Council. It has 105 families with termination notices or notices of eviction in Dublin 15 alone. I am coming to the Taoiseach as a TD from that area reporting a humanitarian crisis. I want to highlight...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: An honest debate about what? I did not hear the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy is such a notorious feminist himself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Gardaí who are corrupt, who pervert the course of justice over and over and over again, should not be awarded a medal of bravery for one act. There was no need. He could have been excluded from the award and the other gardaí could have been presented with their awards. What happened to zero tolerance for gender-based violence when the gardaí who are meant to deal with it...