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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Funding (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide both the allocation and drawdown of Renovate Wave funding by Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022 and the forecasted drawdown in 2023. [21580/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 257. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with an organisation (details supplied) to ensure that a company is abiding by the Workplace Relations Commission guidelines regarding redundancies, particularly given, reports of staff concerns in respect of the company's compliance with such guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with an organisation (details supplied) to ensure that severance packages are similar to those given to other workers in the technology sector and that the company follow best practice in respect of offering a financial contribution for staff seeking independent legal advice to review such...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In recent months, we have seen announcement after announcement of layoffs across many big technology companies, in particular, in Dublin. The impact of these redundancies has obviously been huge for those directly and indirectly impacted, not only in my own constituency of Dublin Bay South but across the country. The impact is more worrying where there are concerns regarding a lack of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The North has been given a temporary reprieve, we understand, for a £300 million overspend but it is reported today that Stormont officials from the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council believes that £800 million needs to be found. This is a shortfall which will be devastating for public services in Northern Ireland if this is not resolved. It demonstrates the urgent need for an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [20420/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Taoiseach’s commitment to hold the gender equality referendum in November. As the Taoiseach said, this is the referendum which was recommended by the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality and also recommended by our own special committee on gender equality which I had the honour of chairing. As the Taoiseach knows, in our report from December, Unfinished...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: First, I want to condemn the sectarian abuse of a young mother in Lurgan on Sunday, which we know about because a camera captured the footage of what happened. The report highlights how much more we have to do to achieve a lasting peace. I was unable to attend statements in the Dáil last week to mark 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement because I was in Brussels, but my colleague...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I raise a real issue facing real workers. As the INMO conference gets under way this week, over 700 patients are waiting on trolleys. It is an outrageous figure, but one that has somehow become the new normal under this Government. To still have over 700 patients waiting for beds in May, well past the peak of respiratory illnesses, is indicative of a year-round trolley crisis. Our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with the Taoiseach. I think he is right. Of course homelessness is a stain on our society. It is shameful that we have nearly 12,000 people in homelessness at a time when the country is running very significant budget surpluses, with over €5 billion of a surplus last year. I disagree with him, however, on the eviction ban. We have heard from all of those working with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On Friday we learned that homelessness figures have risen yet again to almost 12,000 people, which represents a 2.1% increase month on month. These figures relate to the period just before the lifting of the eviction ban took effect. I shudder to think what the figure for next month will be, as the evictions allowed to proceed by the Government come into force. These figures show that...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [20422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Valuation Office (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average processing time for valuations to be processed by the Valuation Office; if there is a difference in processing times between different types of properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20391/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Valuation Office (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the delays in the Valuation Office in processing properties seeking a rates exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20392/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the regulations on service charges and sinking funds, as required under sections 18.17 and 19.9 of the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011, will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the reasons they were not introduced in quarter 4 of 2022, as indicated in the Housing for All plan. [20636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Education and Training Provision (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on talks with Trinity College Dublin about funds for counselling psychologists; and when he anticipates the details of the agreement will be published. [20613/23]

Final Report of the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important debate. I want to begin, as other have, by welcoming our visitors in the Gallery and all of those who have worked for so long to see a properly regulatory framework in place. This includes organisations like Irish Families Through Surrogacy, Equality for Children, LGBT Ireland and Irish Gay Dads. I also want to thank all the individuals...

Final Report of the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Indications have been given and that is welcome. Parents and families I have spoken to are anxious to see that proceed and to see the issue of judicial discretion built into that such that judges will have some discretion, which is important. The report recognises that the case of retrospective parentage declarations is separate and needs a separate and different approach to be taken. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radon Gas Levels (27 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his communications with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of radon. [19990/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radon Gas Levels (27 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the implementation of the national radon control strategy; and if he will report on plans for financial supports for radon remediation works, in particular. [19991/23]