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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s position on secondary schools requiring parents to purchase iPads or specific digital devices, particularly in light of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme; the guidance or oversight her Department provides to ensure that families are not subjected to undue financial pressure due to school-imposed digital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to simplify the tendering protocol for the free schoolbooks scheme to allow wider access to the scheme for independent bookstores; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36825/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 326. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the decision to not excavate Sean Ross Abbey will be revised; the person who decided that the report findings were not enough to warrant an excavation; the basis for that decision; the alternative action, if any, being taken to account for the over 1,000 missing children from Sean Ross Abbey; if the Government will commit to a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to revise the mother and baby home redress scheme to include those who spent less than six months in a mother and baby home institution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36723/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 365. To ask the Minister for Health if the new national drugs strategy will include a comprehensive policy on tackling alcohol consumption; if this will be prioritised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36837/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36609/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he would support the introduction of an ‘X’ marker on passports for people who identify with a non-binary gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36095/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (1 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 309. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a comprehensive AI strategy to protect the rights and livelihoods of those working in the Irish tour guide industry will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (1 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he supports the implementation of the recommendation in the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 to allow for a system of recognition for people who are non-binary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36096/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider making permanent the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider increasing the weekly payment for the basic income for the arts pilot given currently it is below minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35103/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his Department’s efforts to establish a unit in the Housing Agency to regulate owners’ management companies to ensure effective governance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Regulations (26 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the regulations which were drafted in February 2022 for dealing with apartment service charges and sinking funds will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (26 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 will move from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35100/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the redesignation of all mild general learning disability schools as complex needs schools; if she will pause redesignations pending consultation and a review involving parents and teachers; if she will ensure that those pupils in existing mild general learning disabilities schools will have the specialist supports that they...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the possibility of learning support teachers (SET) who do not have Irish language qualifications to be able to work in schools where all their pupils are not learning Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (24 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider legal or policy changes to allow State agencies and courts to be able to refer abusers to structured, long-term rehabilitation programs that include therapy, behaviour change, and psychological oversight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (24 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 742. To ask the Minister for Health to reconsider the ending of the special leave with pay scheme, for health care workers who contracted Covid in the workplace and are now suffering serious, long-term disability, such disability affecting their career, their financial, psychological and physical health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 403. To ask the Minister for Health to outline her engagements with the HSE on access to givinostat for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33325/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (18 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider implementing legislation to compel landlords or housing bodies to notify tenants of overpayments and promptly return such payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32875/25]