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Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We should register that it is poor the Minister is not here himself. No offence to the Minister of State but it is also poor that he is not even in the area of justice. He is in the Department of heritage and housing, I believe. This does not send a good message. What the Minister of State has read out is even more disappointing than I thought it was going to be. Listen to what the...

Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: No, that is a fact. The idea that judges are always right and should have arbitration on this is not right. I do not agree with giving all power to a judge. I thank the Sinn Féin Deputies who have stayed and contributed to the debate on a Thursday evening. It is a pity there were not more parties. How many more women and people, because we had male victims in the Gallery when...

Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." In starting the debate on my Bill today, I am thinking in particular of the family of Annie McCarrick who disappeared 33 years ago but only now is a man being arrested in relation to that crime. Obviously, women do not disappear; something has to happen to them. We recall many other women in the 1990s who just suddenly disappeared and the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I send my sympathies to all affected by the crash in India. It is absolutely horrific. Thousands of people are taking part in a march to Gaza today. They are trying to break the criminal blockade which is allowing thousands of people to starve, be killed and so on. It is something the Tánaiste commended when he spoke of doing anything that can be done to keep the eyes of the world...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: This is the kind of thing we have to listen to during Leaders' Questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: How important does the Tánaiste think the issue of gender-based violence is? The United Nations and the WHO say it is the greatest threat to the health of women and girls in the world. There has been a record number of calls to Women's Aid and a rise in calls to gardaí regarding gender-based violence. I am struggling to find one measure the Government has introduced in its six...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Not every issue has to be defensive either.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There is an irony in the Tánaiste saying we should all work together when the Government is stopping my Bill. The Government could have allowed the Bill to progress. We could debate it and it could amend it on Committee Stage. The problem with the Bill the Minister seems to be talking about is that it will not exclude the potential for counselling notes to be admitted. That is the...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach gets annoyed when we use the word “complicit”. I believe the Minister does too. What does the word “complicit” mean? I looked it up again before I came to the Chamber. It means “involved in, or knowing something is wrong or unlawful”. The Minister knows something is wrong and unlawful and he has a big chance to do something about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I did not have time to read the Minister of State's substantial prepared answer but the Department of Transport has known about this because residents have been in contact. The Minister, Deputy Chambers, is also based in the area and replied to residents last August. I warn people in Dublin city that this is what they are in for. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it seems, will let these...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister of State put the matter on the transport committee's agenda?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Unfortunately, in Blanchardstown we have been suffering with this for more than a year and a half and nobody is listening. Manna Drone Delivery began operating in Blanchardstown and it, apparently, has 170,000 drone flights done. The plan is for 2 million. The company has now linked up with the massive multinational, Deliveroo. Let us be clear: the company is not delivering blood or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the interim funding for multi-unit development defects remediation; the total number of schemes that have applied; the schemes approved; the total number of units involved in each scheme; the moneys approved, allocated and spent to date in 2025; and when works are expected to commence and conclude on each...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate for and implement a comprehensive remediation scheme, including retrospective payments, for defective apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30914/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (11 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider altering the criteria for the means test for fuel allowance to allow a greater income threshold for those living alone considering the fixed cost of maintaining a household; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30738/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It is again very unfortunate the Minister is not here for a debate on a slew of new measures affecting the whole rental sector.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: He is on the "Six One" news. He is not here, is what I said and the debate has been going on for an hour and a half.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We have not had a chance to question the housing Minister, that I can recall, since coming into this Dáil. I wanted to register that. We have already seen him raising this great idea of the housing tsar. Somebody commented that we have not seen a tsar disappear so quickly since 1917. That idea has gone. I will address some of the measures announced today. No-fault evictions have...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: On a point of order, there is not a quorum here. I need to leave. I have been here for a few hours. I am calling a quorum.

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Well, I am leaving now. The Government could not even get a quorum for housing statements.