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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The measures the Minister has described are simply not enough and I do not think anyone in government would dispute that. They are simply not enough to deal with the real levels of housing distress. The Minister speaks in the passive tense and refers to demand outstripping supply, but it is up to the Government to do something about that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: This Government has been in office since 2020. We need to see action on this. Week in, week out, we hear the Government dismissing constructive proposals from the Opposition. It dismissed restricting no-fault evictions, freezing rents, and the idea of linking increases to inflation. It dismissed increasing the new-build target to 50,000 homes per year years, but it has never explained why...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 328. To ask the Minister for Health when the report of the oversight group on vaginal mesh surgery will be published; the recommendations of the group; and when his Department will have reviewed the recommendations in respect of vaginal mesh surgery. [5906/24]

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: If I may, I will share time with former Labour Party leader and my colleague Deputy Brendan Howlin, who, of course, served with the former Taoiseach John Bruton in government. On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish to extend our sincere sympathies to the family of John Bruton: to his wife, Finola, to their four children, Juliana, Emily, Mary-Elizabeth and Matthew, to his sister, Mary, and,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a statement on the provisional ruling of the International Court of Justice on 26 January 2024. [4958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann’s €10 charge for transporting bicycles by bus is in line with Government policy; and if he will make a statement on the need to promote cross-modal commuting and interchangeable public and active transport methods. [4957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Data Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make a statement on data sharing restrictions in respect of statutory authorities under his Department; and, in particular, if he will make a statement on the National Transport Authority’s ability to share anonymised information about speeding and other traffic offences with residents associations. [5002/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on progress to ensure that the RSA is not prohibited from releasing information on road traffic accidents by GDPR; if he has sought the rationale for ceasing to release such information due to the regulation; and, if so, if he is satisfied that the rationale is reasonable. [5686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Insurance Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position of the memorandum of understanding between an organisation (details supplied) and the Office of Public Works in relation to flood insurance; and if his attention has been drawn to instances where consumers have been unable to avail of flood insurance due to a non-acceptance of the memorandum of understanding by insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 219. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding plans to regulate platform short-term lets; and if delays imposed on the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill by the European Union have been lifted. [4956/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address issues raised in a case (details supplied); and if the situation referred to is consistent with Government policy on the tenant purchase scheme. [5567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through LDA investment in 2024; and the estimated amount of expenditure it has allocated to deliver same. [5681/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an itemised breakdown of his Department’s voted capital and current expenditure for 2023 and 2024; and if he will itemise the actual expenditure for each of these programmes for 2023. [5682/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable cost rental homes delivered by AHBs and the LDA in 2023; the breakdown, by local authority area; the number of units in each scheme; and the average rent being charged. [5683/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make a statement on the SCOPE investigation into RTÉ; and if her Department is in a position to project when all cases will conclude. [5684/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Construction Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on a report by an organisation (details supplied) on construction labour shortages. [5687/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome to the Public Gallery representatives from Helping Irish Hosts, the Irish Red Cross, Ukraine Civic Society Forum and Ukrainian Action in Ireland. I thank Helping Irish Hosts and the Irish Red Cross for providing a positive and uplifting briefing this morning which I had the honour of chairing. I thank colleagues from across the House who came along to the AV room. We heard there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is not enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: But the recruitment-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We are not seeing enough.