I am not going to get a chance to bring up all the infrastructural needs of my constituency. There are 140,000 people. We have no light rail system. I will just mention one area which is the Tyrrelstown and Hollystown area. It is so symptomatic of the way developer-led planning happens in this country, which is one of the headings that is used in the strategy. Some 1,400 houses were recently added on in Hollystown, f…
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Ruth Coppinger
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938
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| May 2025 | 42 | 68 |
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| October 2026 | 20 | 15 |
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3. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the G20 in South Africa. [3747/26]
15. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the EU-African Union summit. [3748/26]
I do not know whether there is any other law that imposes a three-day wait on any medical treatment. I do not know whether it applies when getting Viagra or rhinoplasty surgery. Forcing women to wait for a health treatment that is extremely time sensitive and very geographically difficult to access, where that wait is medically unnecessary, damaging and patronising and puts extra pressure on our health services, has …
To be frank, we should not really need consensus for an individual to get healthcare. It should not be up to men, predominantly, in the Dáil, or the State in general, to prevent women or pregnant people from accessing something for which the whole country voted. The Minister is right that we had telemedicine during the pandemic, and the sky did not fall in. In fact, telemedicine for abortion care has been shown to be…
Consensus seems only to be necessary when it comes to the health, lives and choices of women. The Bill the Minister referenced was actually put forward in the previous Dáil by former Deputy, Bríd Smith.
That is no problem; I am just clarifying it. It was very undemocratic of TDs who had not debated that Bill - I had not debated it because I was not in the previous Dáil - just to block it. It should have been allowed to go forward for debate. My understanding is that all the provisions in the Bill were measures the citizens' assembly had proposed but that the politicians on the relevant committee, of which I was a me…
It was a movement that achieved that, not this Dáil.
Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. Is the speech available?
Sorry, on a point of order -----
----- this speech was sent out by Deputy Michael Lowry yesterday -----
----- to a constituent. We should have it here.
It was.
It was sent out yesterday by Deputy Michael Lowry to people.
If Deputy Lowry had it yesterday, the rest of us who are in here for the debate should have it.
And it is not off the cuff.
I welcome the survivors, therapists and campaigners who have come to the Dáil today, including those who have campaigned on the issue of an amnesty for same-sex relations crime in the past. I do not know if they are still here. The issue in this Bill that has dominated is that of the use of counselling notes. There are many survivors here today. I cannot mention them all but will mention a few.
Some of those who pla…
26. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach for an overview of his Department’s annual report for 2024. [3746/26]
This is ridiculous. Thirty seconds. This is happening every second slot. We warned about this when the Government cut Taoiseach's questions.
It is happening every week.
A huge amount of resources went from the Department of the Taoiseach last year into trying to strategise and manage the visit to the White House for St. Patrick's Day. I am wondering what the hell level will be needed this year for the Taoiseach to manage such a visit if it goes ahead because we have a demagogue, dangerously unleashed at this point. I was never a fan of the shamrock at the White House. There are othe…
I am sorry. It was what?
Yes. That is what I mean. That takes money.
The Taoiseach is not named.
Why is the Government demonising them every day?