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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The answer the Minister of State has given exemplifies the difficulties with the Government's approach to planning. There is a serious element of passing the buck between central government and local authorities. We have seen it in the tenant in situscheme, in Government proposals around the first refusal scheme and in the lack of planning and co-ordination between central government and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to ensure that residents who are selected from the social housing list to join a new-build co-operative home ownership scheme are not charged development levies due to the dwellings being classed as "private"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23915/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to ensure that residents who are selected from the social housing list to join a new-build co-operative home ownership scheme are not charged development levies due to the dwellings being classed as "private", and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this debate on behalf of the Labour Party. The survey sadly confirms the high prevalence of sexual violence in Ireland. It is shocking, but not surprising, to read that 28% of men and 52% of all women experience sexual violence over the course of their lifetimes. This publication comes in the wake some years ago of the Sexual Abuse and Violence in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Food prices and the price of basic groceries are continuing to rise, putting serious strain on households trying to afford just the bare necessities of life. We are seeing price reductions that are not being passed on to consumers. We are seeing profit margins for big retailers increasing and the Minister's retail forum last week was utterly toothless. It did not give retailers any reason...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (17 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will implement a mechanism for those resident in Ireland to apply for a family reunification visa on behalf of family members who are fleeing Sudan, given that there is currently no Irish embassy in Sudan. [23304/23]

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I being by acknowledging the presence of the Palestinian ambassador and that it is the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. I offer my condolences and sympathies to all those who have lost family members and friends over those years. I thank my colleagues in Sinn Féin for putting forward this important Bill to which we in Labour our delighted to offer full support. I also acknowledge the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Just two hours ago, along with fellow Oireachtas Members, a large number of us took to the streets on our bicycles to mark National Bike Week. I thank all those Oireachtas Members who took part, along with Oireachtas staff and cyclist.ie. Bicycles are the transport of the future. They are good for the planet, good for cities and towns and good for our health. Right now, far too many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Not enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: This week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: As the Minister said, it is over a year since the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine. That is over a year in which the Government could and should have pulled together a more coherent, co-ordinated and joined-up response to this crisis. She spoke of a cross-governmental approach but there is no sense of leadership from the Taoiseach on this matter. Instead we heard him seeking to deflect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Along with my Labour colleagues, I condemn outright the horrific attacks that took place in my constituency this weekend with the burning of tents on Sandwith Street and the intimidation of individuals forced to sleep in tents in and around the Mount Street area. I met with these people over the weekend. I met with people who travelled to Ireland to seek refuge and to make a contribution to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a delegation of workers (details supplied) who are facing redundancy and are in Ireland on Stamp 1 working visas, who are highly skilled workers and would like to remain in Ireland but may now be facing the prospect of having to return to dangerous and often precarious situations in their home countries,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: This morning, my Labour Party colleagues and I met with Cara Darmody and her father, Mark, from Ardfinnan in County Tipperary. Cara is only 12 years old but she has already become an impressive and powerful advocate on behalf of children with autism, autistic children, who are being denied services in this country. She has spoken out on behalf on her family about their struggle to get...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier this week I raised with the Taoiseach the desperate case of Micheline Walsh and her husband, who are in their late 70s and facing eviction. I said then they were not alone and, very sadly, today we see a report from Alone and Threshold on older and ageing persons in the private rental sector. The report notes 40% of older people who are now renting expect to have to continue renting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for the response. I commend the authors of the report from Threshold and Alone, because they have shone a spotlight on what is, as the Minister has acknowledged, a problem we are going to see increasing with an ageing population and the ticking time bomb resulting from the chronic housing shortage. However, the Minister's Government needs to do something about this....