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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, budget 2023 was published after what seemed like the longest lead-in ever. With so many leaks, over so many weeks, we were led to believe that this would be a substantial package of measures designed to get struggling communities through this bleak winter and beyond. Unfortunately, that was not what we saw yesterday. What we saw was money spread so thinly that it will go...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party welcome any measures that will alleviate hardship for families and households over this winter. We agree that a combination of measures is necessary, but we have proposed three immediate actions the Government could have taken in this budget to alleviate hardship. I refer to a €9 per month public transport ticket to heavily subsidise public transport for all, a...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think that was because of Covid-----

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I think that might have been in a very exceptional circumstance of Covid to take money out of the fund.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "if and when adequate notice is given of such a proposal, and provided that adequate time is provided in order to debate the matter, Dáil Éireann will consider whether to approve, pursuant to section 5(4) of the National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019 (No. 18...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We in Labour also called for this increase in the small benefit exemption from €500 to €1,000. We welcome a provision enabling an employer to provide an extra €500 in tax-free vouchers to staff. It is one way of ensuring that workers will get a pay rise. However, not enough has been done in this budget otherwise to ensure that workers get the pay rise they need, in...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: A cigarette break might be desired by many after listening to some of the debate. Any reduction in fees of this sort is welcome but it is clearly just a tokenistic measure. Anyone working in the night-time economy who is looking to develop arts and cultural spaces, creativity and trying to ensure a really vibrant future for live entertainment for music and nightlife will see this as far...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Oh, I am not stressed.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party support this resolution. We support it as a public health measure. The evidence is clear about the deterrent effect that this has on smoking. We can all agree that it is good to see fewer people smoking and to see that direction in public health practice.

Allocation of Time: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We, in the Labour Party, also have concerns around the final motion on the National Surplus (Exceptional Contingencies) Reserve Fund. Indeed, we wrote to the Ceann Comhairle this evening to express our objections to the proposal to consider this motion this evening without notice and without an opportunity for debate. We have also submitted an amendment to require adequate notice and...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Hear hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a national breakdown, per local authority, of the number of accommodation places that each local authority has secured and made available to refugees from Ukraine in each month since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a national breakdown, per local authority, of the number of offers of accommodation that have been received by local authorities from members of the public for refugees from Ukraine to Ireland since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022; the number of these that have been secured and made...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Appointments (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 402. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1423 of 8 September 2022, if she will confirm when the national guidelines were published; and the location in which they can be accessed. [46959/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the process to include the cancer medicine, verzenios for reimbursement under the medicine access scheme for persons diagnosed with breast cancer.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46610/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier about the rising costs of childcare. A constituent has contacted me because, despite staff seeing a very welcome pay increase at the crèche her children attend, a sizable fee increase has been imposed upon parents. The concern she and many constituents, and others throughout the country, have is that crèches and childcare facilities may have signed up to the new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Later today, along with our finance spokesperson, Deputy Nash, I and my Labour colleagues will be introducing our alternative Labour budget and our proposals for budget 2023. We are doing so at a time when we are facing unprecedented crises. There is a crisis in the cost of living, and there are exorbitant price increases in food and fuel and in basic household necessities. We are also...