Results 241-260 of 11,664 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (7 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 220. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No 448 of 1 April 2025, when a decision will be made and communicated; if he will make a statement on the need for certainty for self-employed persons availing of the scheme; and if there will be a tapering of supports in the event that the scheme is phased out. [22236/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff working at IPAS; the number of vacancies at IPAS; and the number of staff in his Department who work with IPAS. [22191/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the transfer of IPAS to his Department; if he will supply a timeline for complete transfer; the number of additional staff which will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22194/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason local elected representatives are not informed of decisions in respect of the taking of premises for IPAS in a uniform manner; and his plans to ensure that information is not provided selectively [22192/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of leases with private providers and IPAS which are due to expire in the next two months; his plans to renew or not renew such leases; the criteria used for renewal; and when providers will be informed, both of the process and whether their lease will be renewed. [22193/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (7 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an upload portal for reporting road traffic offences will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22272/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish everyone today a happy May Day. Many workers across the State are looking forward to a day off on Monday; a public holiday introduced by the Labour Party to mark International Workers' Day. It is important we mark this day. Its purpose is more than just celebrating the progress made on workers' rights in the past 100 years because May Day is also when we shine a light on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----and stick with that 2026 deadline? Can he give workers a hope on May Day, a hope for the future, to move them out of the poverty trap?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I have certainly acknowledged positive advances made for workers' rights, fought for and campaigned for by trade unions and the trade union movement. At a time when we are seeing significant divisions emerging between the Tánaiste and his senior coalition partner in Fianna Fáil, perhaps this is the time for him to carve out a space on workers' rights that emphasises the difference...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I raise with the Taoiseach the ongoing issue of policing levels in our communities. Across the country, we all hear from communities who have immense concerns about the shortage of gardaí on the streets, a lack of community gardaí and problems of low morale within the Garda. In my constituency of Dublin Bay South, this week alone we have seen an appalling incidence of antisocial...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to ensure we have visible and effective policing of our streets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There is so much to challenge in what the Taoiseach just said, with respect. First, he cannot stand over his Government's figures on delivery of homes when it promised 40,000 homes last year and the actual delivery was 10,000 short, a shocking shortfall. It is utterly indefensible. No one, even in the Government or in Fianna Fáil, will stand over that figure. Second, the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I hear every day from renters in my constituency-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----who are desperately worried because of the review of RPZs announced by the Government. The reason is there are so few homes available to rent. If they cannot afford to pay their rent any longer, they have nowhere else to go. It comes back to delivery of homes. The Government is ignoring the crucial recommendation of the Housing Commission that the Government should introduce a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----of homes through the Land Development Agency, ramped up-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to provide State-built homes, as was done in the seventies, which the Taoiseach keeps referring to as the golden age of house building.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: He promised 40,000 homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: You said they were not high enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Last Friday, we learned 15,418 people were recorded as homeless in March, another shameful new high. Nearly 5,000 children are now growing up in Ireland without a home. Each homeless child is a tragedy. There are now 22 more children homeless than there were last month. This is a national scandal. It is the civil rights issue of our generation. As legislators, we must do all we can to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This move looks like nothing more than an exercise in the evasion of accountability. What will this body actually do?