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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach mentioned the Middle East. That is why I mentioned it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: And the Israeli equipment?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What is our country's security strategy going forward? It seems to be so tied in with the EU that we cannot assert our own so-called values and beliefs. For example, the Taoiseach says there is a genocide on Gaza, as does the Tánaiste. Ursula von der Leyen says it is Israel defending itself. It was an incredible statement that was put out over the weekend, after Israel had bombed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: We are doing all this to impress the EU but it is not what the Irish people want.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [29592/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published by his Department. [29591/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Is this a government of climate deniers? Has the Government just given up any pretence of trying to deal with the climate crisis? We are due to reach a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 23% rather than 51%. We are not going to reach one third of the targets for agriculture. We have the worst emissions in Europe. We are now the dirty country of Europe. Half of Dublin's...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the latest processing times for applications to the foreign births register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32299/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a private company (details supplied) that automatically grabs and resells cancellation slots for driving test for the price of €120; when this practice began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32195/25]

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?