Ruth Coppinger
Oral
7. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [66869/26]
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Ruth Coppinger
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938
questions asked
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164,714
words spoken in the chamber
Across 1,017 contributions
371
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239
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| May 2025 | 42 | 68 |
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| July 2026 | 26 | 32 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| September 2026 | 53 | 20 |
| October 2026 | 20 | 15 |
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Ruth Coppinger
Oral
21. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [66870/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
206. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports issued in the past five years with a sex marker other than F or M, by year, in tabular form. [68916/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
211. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the meeting of his departmental officials with four recognised trade unions concerning the employee share ownership plan promised in June (details supplied) will take place without further delay. [68187/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
257. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Transport to outline his plans for interim traffic arrangements during the Dart+ west construction programme. [68196/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
379. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth the expected enrollment figures for a school (details supplied) for each year from 2027-2032 inclusive, in tabular form. [68195/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
504. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) who has appealed a disability allowance decision will receive an update on the decision. [68192/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
523. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Social Protection for a report on the work of the interdepartmental working group on a non-binary gender; and when the report will be published. [68912/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
711. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health to consider bringing forward legislation to provide free universal access to blister packs for patients from pharmacies. [68183/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
832. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the current estimated waiting time between a first referral to the National Gender Service made in September 2026 and a first appointment with that service based on the current resources available to the service; and the average length of time spent on the waiting list by patients who received an invitation to a first appointment with the …
Ruth Coppinger
Written
839. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health the number treated with intersex genital mutilation, IGM, in each of the years from 2018 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and to provide an indication as to the reasoning in cases in which IGM was deemed necessary. [68849/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
840. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health the information provided to parents of intersex infants; the involvement, that intersex people have in informing and monitoring this information; and if parents with intersex infants are being referred to an organisation. [68848/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
841. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Health if the incidence of intersex genital mutilation is reducing in Ireland; and if so, to provide data to support this. [68847/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
316. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide and update and a timetable for when construction works at a school (details supplied) will be completed. [67718/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
317. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update and timeframe for construction works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [67716/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
410. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to ensure that students who have had their visas rejected coming from Palestine will have any appeals to this refusal looked at in as little time as possible. [67834/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
147. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her plans to increase foreign aid funding for an organisation (details supplied). [66137/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
297. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a report referred to in a debate (details supplied) will be released publicly. [66121/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
81. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports that have been issued from the years 2020-2026 which included a gender marker that was not M (male) or F (female). [64971/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
116. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his current plans to regulate increases in prices from energy suppliers. [64969/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
117. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to consider the introduction of supplementary energy credits that take into account the current rate of increase in energy prices. [64968/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
187. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Transport to consider the introduction of an additional bus on a route (details supplied). [64141/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
210. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Transport to reconsider the introduction of a 15% increase in adult public transport fares given the current cost-of-living crisis. [64459/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
522. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth her current plans to introduce permanent formal therapeutic infrastructure in schools. [64693/26]
Ruth Coppinger
Written
593. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has put in place provisions to ensure that there is a place in an Irish-medium second level school for those who have attended an Irish-medium primary school. [65213/26]