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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: Nine months ago the country voted en masseto repeal the eighth amendment and to allow abortion rights. It was a truly historic referendum. The central message was clear that people with a crisis pregnancy should be cared for in Ireland and should not be forced abroad and that people should be able to make these decisions freely without barrier or obstruction. In the last 24 hours we have...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I do not know what we would do if we did not have the Rural Independent Group Deputies and other Deputies to give us this amazing information. Women, it seems, do not know that the Internet exists where they can get all this information themselves without us passing it into law. I thank the Deputies for insisting that this be put into the law. While the Deputies were speaking, I took...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: These amendments relate to the broadening of the definition of a medical practitioner who may participate in the provision of abortion services. We are calling for it to be expanded to other professionals within the health system. Such a practice is not unusual. The point is that we are innovating and bringing in legislation that should be state-of-the-art and up to date. For example, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role and Remuneration of Elected Members of Local Authorities: Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A review is worthwhile because, as others have said, it is particularly dangerous for spouses and partners of councillors. I hear reports of people losing social welfare payments because their partners are councillors. This is happening. It has happened to one of our own and to several other councillors. The danger of the way it impacts on a family's income is that one will get council...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The third interim report was met with acute dissatisfaction by survivors and their families and supporters, people who had been failed by the State, the religious denominations and the entire establishment. For the lone parents, unmarried mothers and poor parents involved - in many cases, the only crime of those placed in county homes was being homeless or living in poverty - this is not an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues Arising from the Citizens' Assembly Recommendations: Masters of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital (11 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I will start with the last point because in the previous session we had a presentation about abortion pills and the research that has been done. Obviously, they are used for 80% of abortions in Finland and are medically extremely safe, but I am sure the witnesses would agree it would be much better if women in Ireland could go to their GP, have a discussion and be prescribed them, as they...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Another day, another housing Minister. We have had Deputies Alan Kelly and Simon Coveney and now we have Deputy Eoghan Murphy. The faces are certainly changing but the policies are not. In the context of this Bill, the continual refrain we heard from all of the Ministers I have named when asked to deal with the crisis was that it was unconstitutional. Rent controls allegedly were...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome to the Visitors Gallery people who are directly affected by this ongoing scandal of the so-called mother and baby homes. It is a term that we should start changing, because they were not homes and they were not centred around the mother and the baby. We really need to change the whole language around this issue. Everything about the way the State handles this issue is to avoid,...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity - People Before Profit Deputies pushed for this debate to be put on the agenda and it has been difficult to reach agreement. The Taoiseach justified visiting a racist, sexist American President and offering him the hand of friendship - I do not know why the Minister of State is making a face - on the grounds that he would make a case about immigration and the illegal, undocumented...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Solidarity welcomes the opportunity to discuss the delivery of the new children's hospital and how best to deliver quality health care for children. We have serious misgivings about the cost of the new hospital. As the motion outlines, there has been an increase in the cost from €404 million in 2012 to approximately €1 billion in 2017. We are told that much of the added cost...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to restore the eligibility of all persons born in the island of Ireland for Irish citizenship. This Bill would reverse the changes to Irish citizenship law that were implemented in 2005 following the referendum in 2004. The Bill would give the entitlement to Irish citizenship to everyone born on the island of Ireland regardless...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: ...absolute outcry in the United States. Among all the outrageous statements Mr. Donald Trump made, this was the least acceptable to the general population. Mr. Trump had to back-pedal, yet in Ireland there is a 14-year jail sentence for any woman, friend, counsellor or other individual who helps a woman with a crisis pregnancy to have an abortion. That law was enacted only in 2013, which...

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I am glad the issue is being discussed on Thursday but I also question if two hours is sufficient. 3 o’clock The issue has serious repercussions. On Thursday, the Taoiseach should come here and make a statement about the criminal action that will be taken against the perpetrators who ran these homes and the repercussions for education, given that over 90% of primary schools are...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I welcome those in the Visitors Gallery who are intently involved and affected by this Bill, which I support fully and commend. I wish to make some general points about the history that has led us to this point. The reason we are here is that the Irish State since its foundation outsourced to the Catholic Church the care and education of all people and directly turned its back on the...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The Harding Clark report is another injustice to the women who had symphysiotomies against their will. The report is unbalanced, flawed and not objective. It should not be accepted and promoted by the Government. The report was released before Christmas but we are only discussing it at the end of January because a number of Deputies intervened and demanded that it be discussed in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I apologise for being late as there was a community event in my area I had to attend. I hope I will not repeat what others have said and will try to focus on the social housing pillar. Homelessness is an international problem and is evident in every country. A baby died on the streets in Portland, Oregon, which is in the richest country on the planet, and homelessness is at a phenomenal...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Last week on Leaders' Questions I asked the Taoiseach if he agreed that the housing crisis was the most pressing issue in the country right now and to declare a housing emergency. This week I would like to put the same questions to the Labour Party because the Taoiseach did not declare a housing emergency but people might expect a different response from the Labour Party. I was somewhat...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I formally propose the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2014. If adopted, following a referendum of the people, it would have the effect of deleting Article 40.3.3o, otherwise known as the eighth amendment, from the Constitution. This would allow the Dáil to then draft legislation, as it sees fit, to permit abortion in the State. The Bill was published last September...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jan 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ...the Gallery any of the families or relatives of survivors of any of these homes. I must start on a negative note. It is a bad sign that the Government saw fit to cut the debate today by an hour and a half. It is not showing sufficient seriousness and I must state the Government benches are not showing sufficient seriousness regarding this matter either. This is part of a legacy of...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Dec 2014)

Ruth Coppinger: The British Pregnancy Advisory Service released figures estimating that one in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime. It is regrettable to see no women politicians on the other side of the House. Let us suppose this figure is true. I call on the Minister to think of the number of male Government politicians whose wives, partners, daughters, sisters, aunts and even mistresses...