Ruth Coppinger

13. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [13975/25]

I, too, want to formally send our very best wishes to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I want to ask what kind of monitoring there is on the well-being of children, particularly disabled and vulnerable children, in our children’s hospitals. Will there be any accountability by successive Ministers for the fact that the HIQA report published today outlines how there was no written approval for springs that wer…

What is the problem with that?

26. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with transport will meet next. [13703/25]

It is important to mark a situation where the right to travel of all citizens no longer exists. Trans and non-binary people were issued with a warning in the past ten days from the authorities in Ireland that if travelling to the US, the traveller's biological sex at birth should not differ from the sex on their passport. They were told by the authorities here to contact the US Embassy if they are…

Could I make a point of order?

Could I clarify whether any Deputy can just jump in on anyone's question? Does that mean people like me who have listed a question and waited all night to ask it might not be heard tonight? Is that the case?

I listed five questions and I got only one of them in. I ask that people would please stop jumping in on them.

I would like to jump in. I would like to register that people from big parties who have loads of opportunities to ask questions have been jumping in all night on these questions, meaning that people from the smaller groups get pushed down even further. It is a little inconsiderate of those parties, including Sinn Féin, Fine Gael and all of them, when there are so many questions on the agenda.

My question will not be taken now because of that.

In this debate on youth crime, there has not been much emphasis on the huge danger of violent misogyny and the targeting of young boys to essentially hate women and blame them for the situation they face. "Adolescence", a series on Netflix, has opened up a big discussion in society around this. The plot is very reminiscent of the horrific killing of Ana Kriégel in this country. We have to say that…

I commend Deputy Healy on bringing this motion seeking to make housing an emergency. I am gobsmacked. Here we are again looking at a sole face over on the backbenches. Not only is housing not an emergency for the Government, it is not even a priority. The Minister did not even use his full time. He had three minutes left. None of the backbenchers who have been talking about wanting to speak even b…

Are they private homes?

The principals will call the Government out now.

They need a school now.

I wish to register an objection to the way things were done last week. Now we are into the situation where we have Michael Lowry sitting very lonely on his own-----

His companion has had to move right up into the corner to disassociate from the absolutely abysmal reputation that the Taoiseach has decided to bring-----

----- this Government into. This is the first time we will have the cordoning off of time purely for pro-Government TDs to speak, not to be accountable to the Opposition in any way this week. I absolutely do not agree.

19. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the co-ordination role of his Department in national security; and when the new national security committee will be established. [13704/25]

Disgraceful.

The national security of our country is being breached by increased requests for weapons flight exemptions. However, it seems that mothers are the biggest threat to security judging by the actions yesterday. I, too, want to put on the record the utterly outrageous treatment of mothers who gave up Mother's Day to peacefully hold a vigil. I was actually going to attend it myself. They had pictures o…

Why did this happen at a very peaceful vigil, with displays marking a memorial, in effect, for the people who have been killed in Palestine? These women are nothing but peace-loving. I know many of them personally; one or two live in my constituency.

If I could just say this, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle: why did the gardaí ask the women why they were supporting Hamas? Obviously, they are not supporting Hamas by objecting to a genocide. Why did the gardaí also ask: "What do you think would happen to you if you were outside the White House right now?" Is this an international policing memo that is being sent, emanating from the likes of Germany and …

Is this coming to Ireland as well?

I would like the Taoiseach to object to the way those women were treated.