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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator. We will give the Tánaiste a bit of leeway on time because there were a number of issues. We produced an interim report on recommendations Nos. 1 to 3 related to the constitutional referendum, so Senator Ruane's question was pertinent to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: In recommendation No. 34, the Citizens' Assembly seeks to align the minimum wage with the living wage by 2025. That is the recommendation on which we are focused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for the point he made about IGEES, which we may follow up on. There is a specific recommendation on gender budgeting from the Citizens' Assembly that we must look at. We may come back on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We are straying beyond the remit of this committee but a Seanad reform blueprint is available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Extensive reform is possible, even within the confines of the Constitution, but perhaps we will return to the remit of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: When we had ICTU before us last week there was a focus on recommendation No. 35 from the citizens' assembly, which called for the establishment of a legal right to collective bargaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is welcome to hear that. We heard last week about the draft EU directive on adequate minimum wages, which will place obligations about collective bargaining and create that legal framework.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is useful to hear the report is due imminently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Recommendation No. 15 states: "Take account of gender equality issues in piloting a Universal Basic Income scheme." We look forward to the research that the Minister has described and said he will publish shortly. . Deputy Leo Varadkar:I have to bring the research to Government before it gets published. The thing that will be published in October is the report by the high-level working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I have two specific questions on matters that we have not considered sufficiently and two Deputies wish to ask some questions, as part of the second round, after which I suggest we finish. Recommendation No. 36 states:" Introduce a statutory right to reasonable access to flexible working." The citizens' assembly was very clear that it wanted to see a statutory right to reasonable access...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We sought one next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It soon will be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That concludes our public hearing. On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister for his constructive engagement with us and I thank his officials for attending. We will send him our interim report on constitutional change and, at the start of December, we will publish our final report on all 45 recommendations of the citizens' assembly. We will forward both to him in his role as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the nominating bodies and appointees to the early years service joint labour committee. [47749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the early learning and care services that are in receipt of the graduate premium for lead educators and the graduate premium for graduate managers; and the sum allocated to each service, in tabular form. [47748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to make public the list of signatories to the new core funding model; and the consequences for organisations that sign up to the scheme but do not pass on the benefit of a fee freeze to parents. [47750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a list of all special care units in operation in Ireland is maintained and published; and if the location and details of certain units are kept confidential for security reasons. [47756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (29 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 217. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of Health and Information Quality Authority inspection protocols of special care units; and if he will report on the standard criteria applied to such inspections. [47757/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We knew facing into this budget that we face an unprecedented series of crises – in the cost of living, in energy security and in housing, described as a disaster by our President. We knew that increasing numbers of households are facing stark choices between heating and eating and that up to half of all households are likely to be in energy poverty during the bleak winter ahead....