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Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is not the way-----

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I begin by offering our deepest condolences again to Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison, the parents of young Harvey Morrison Sherratt. I have spoken, as have my colleagues, with Gillian previously and we are thinking of them today, as indeed we are thinking of all the parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida who have faced unconscionable delays...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday the Taoiseach was asked about the Baggot Street Hospital, which is an iconic State-owned building in our city centre that has scandalously been left to fall into dereliction. Councillor Dermot Lacey and I have been raising the need for it to be given new life and given over to housing for years. I have heard of a private joke in one Department regarding robust campaigning by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----from November to March. Why not ban disconnections for all households for five months over winter-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----as a stopgap measure while we are bringing in structural-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I begin by welcoming developments for peace in Gaza, as I know we all do, and hope we will see the start of a path to real peace for all in the Middle East. I think we can agree that we are all living in the real world. In the real world, it is a good thing that we are having a debate about energy prices. It is a good thing that we are debating the cost of energy. However, the "cost of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I said "targeted".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We said that in our budget.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I absolutely reject the idea that we are playing to the Gallery. With respect, what I have heard from the Taoiseach does not do anything for the 300,000 households in arrears on their electricity bills or the 185,000 in arrears on their gas bills. The Taoiseach is talking about reviews and task forces. I do agree structural reform is needed because what we are seeing is that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50151/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This week marks Baby Loss Awareness Week, an opportunity for people to mark the personal tragedy of a pregnancy loss. Miscarriage in the later stages of pregnancy gives women the right to take maternity leave but those who lose a pregnancy earlier in the term have no right to paid time off work to recover. We in the Labour Party brought forward legislation to give women paid time off, up to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I have listened carefuly to the Taoiseach's answer and every time I raise housing or the appalling and shocking figure of 5,000 children in homelessness with him, he engages in what I may describe as classic deflection tactics. Previously when I raised the failure to sustain the tenant in situ scheme, a scheme we welcomed, the Taoiseach blamed local authorities. Now he is blaming judicial...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We welcomed that and we welcomed tenant in situ but I am asking the Taoiseach this again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am putting forward to him a constructive way to address the scourge of child homelessness and he has not answered that question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Evictions are hugely important.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh all the visitors in the Public Gallery and the Distinguished Visitors Gallery. The Taoiseach just said that housing is the single biggest issue facing us. We all agree on that but I do not know whether the Taoiseach agrees that the housing system is broken. It has been commodified and marketised. The private rental sector is filling the gaps left by lengthy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Will the Government take a radical step to address this and prevent more children falling into homelessness and consider introducing a temporary eviction ban in cases where children are concerned?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It just came out this morning. The PBO tells us that child poverty will increase next year as a result of the budget measures. The Tánaiste said that we should look at the Government's documents. I have looked at this document. We see middle-income households are also hit. The guide provided at the back of the tax policy change document shows this. It shows the changes for...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach said the Opposition was anti-enterprise and not supportive of job creation. The Labour Party-----