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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We do need to have statements on the Government's policy to ensure adequate accommodation is in place for those who come here seeking refuge. I was back at Percy Place this morning, having been there yesterday. The numbers of those forced to sleep in tents have increased over those days. I commend the local volunteers who have been providing support. Clearly, this is inhumane and...

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response and for reaffirming his commitment to settle this issue in the lifetime of this Government and for providing me with the timeframe for making the decision for the sustainable future funding model by the summer recess. This is very welcome. I am mindful of the concerns expressed by Seamus Dooley of the National Union of Journalists when he responded to...

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

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the long-awaited publication yesterday of the three external reports examining governance, human resources and finances at RTÉ. As we review the content of those reports, however, people around the country are amazed and alarmed that our national broadcaster, the organisation to which they pay the TV licence fee every year, continues to be mired in controversy. In more than...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 63. To ask the Taoiseach when a citizen’s assembly on the future of education will be established. [20844/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the safeguards in place to ensure that public monies committed to owners’ management companies under the defects remediation schemes will be spent in their entirety on remediation works. [20475/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she will not meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the implementation of the Multi-Unit Developments Act [20472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason her Department cannot issue regulations on service charges and sinking funds under sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act; and if she will make a statement on the development of the interim remediation scheme and the drafting of legislation for the full remediation scheme for defective apartments and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 376. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason her Department will not review the Multi-Unit Developments Act; and if she will make a statement on the Programme for Government commitment to review the Act. [20474/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if draft regulations under sections 18 and 19 of the Multi-Unit Developments Act were delivered to her Department in February 2022; and the reason these regulations have not yet been issued by her Department. [20476/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 378. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make a statement on the need to regulate owners’ management companies. [20477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 380. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the written standard operating procedure for returning asylum seekers between the UK and Ireland, as agreed in November 2020; and if the document is publicly available. [20493/24]

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

Ivana Bacik: 640. To ask the Minister for Health when provisions of the Public Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 will be commenced to bring private hospitals into the remit of HIQA for the purpose of investigation of adverse patient events. [20877/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Today the Residential Tenancies Board index for the last quarter of 2023 has brought yet more grim news for those locked out of home ownership. It shows that new tenants are paying hundreds of euro more in rent than existing renters. This report is just another symptom of poor political choices on housing made by the Government. The decision not to pass the Labour Party's renters' rights...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: They are related.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: But ambition is needed.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh - Artsakh region of Azerbaijan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19923/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I wish everyone a happy May Day. I also wish Deputy McDonald a happy birthday today. May Day is a day when we mark progress made on workers' rights and note how much still remains to be done. I raise with the Taoiseach workers' rights legislation that we in Labour brought forward in January. We used our Private Members' time to debate our Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (1 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the nature of and current situation with regard to the European Commission's announcement of 24 April 2024 that it was sending Ireland a reasoned opinion (INFR(2021)2116) for the non-conformity of Irish legislation with Directive 2010/75/EU on Industrial Emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to change the purpose of the progression unit at Mountjoy Prison; and, if so, where the progression unit will be located. [19661/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Last week, US President Joe Biden approved €26 billion in new funding for the Israeli regime. He said that funding for weapons for Israel is conditional on compliance with international humanitarian law, yet the evidence that Netanyahu and the Israeli Government are breaking international law is overwhelming as we see that nearly 35,000 civilians in Gaza have now been killed. Gaza's...