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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (13 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the allocations for public transport in 2022; the additional increases provided in the most recent Budget in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (13 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount ringfenced for retrofitting of local authority homes in 2022; the number projected to be carried out in 2022; the projections for 2023; the amount of funding that will be required to achieve that target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38757/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare and of the additional funding provided in Budget 2022 and expected funding required in 2023 to maintain existing levels of service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional funding required to reduce the costs of childcare for parents to €50 per week or €100 per month; if he will provide a breakdown of the additional allocations required in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm that if a child is in after school care and previously qualified for the national childcare scheme universal subsidy when in a creche that they will now qualify for additional support under the NCS in September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38753/22]

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This afternoon, the Government is asking us to vote confidence in it. We in Labour cannot do that. We have never had confidence in the Government to address the housing disaster, the childcare crisis, the spiralling cost of living or the climate catastrophe. In 2020, we did not support the election of the Taoiseach and we now believe in the need for a change of Government. We believe the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We need a Government that will integrate economic planning with a stronger climate response to take us to net zero as quickly as possible, to make Ireland the renewables superpower that it can be and to support the creation of decent jobs through a just transition. There is a pressing case for change. The reality is that younger generations in Ireland are now growing up worse off than...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we know, Davos is the world's most exclusive lobbying forum. Yesterday, The Irish Times published a series of extraordinary articles about how Uber apparently went about trying to tear up regulations covering the taxi sector in Ireland and did not disclose contact with the then Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at Davos 2016 in its own lobbying returns. Will the Taoiseach tell us what companies...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The premature leaking of aspects of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes caused great anger and distress for survivors of those homes. It is 19 months since an investigation was launched into that leaking and all of us want to know when we will see the outcome. Will the Taoiseach indicate whether the legislation for the payments scheme will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [29332/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. [32140/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [25827/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we know, the summer economic statement was published last week in a context in which we are seeing the living standards of hundreds of thousands of people fall because of prices rising beyond their control and the soaring inflation rate, which was nearly 10% in June. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the budget will increase social welfare payments in line with the rate of inflation?...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Since this Government took office, rents have increased by 15%. Media reports last weekend showed that a legislative loophole in rent pressure zone laws has enabled cuckoo funds to contribute to this problem, charging exorbitant rents, for example, €2,140 per month for a one-bed apartment and up to €5,220 per month for a three-bed. Until the Government reins these funds in, it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, for 45 minutes in the morning.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I too have serious concerns regarding the way the Order of Business has been scheduled. Last week, I criticised the Government for having shoehorned five Bills into five hours on Wednesday afternoon. It is now proposing that six Bills be shoehorned into six hours tomorrow. Even worse, there are significant numbers of amendments to some of those Bills, including significant numbers of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for confirming the date. He said the end of the year is when the review will be complete and that is useful to hear. I acknowledge that the legislation that we passed was, indeed, done on a cross-party basis and many of us banded together to facilitate the passing of that very important change in the law. However, as the Taoiseach acknowledged, there are still certain...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Some words jump out from the study published today on unplanned pregnancy support and abortion care conducted by Dr. Catherine Conlon and her colleagues at Trinity College Dublin. The purpose of the study was to discover the experiences of women who have sought to access abortion under our abortion legislation. The words expressed by women include "awful", "draining", "arduous", "harrowing"...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 204. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet Committee on Covid-19. [35869/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure the Minister received emails as I have this week from constituents alarmed at recent media reports about the negotiations on sectoral emissions targets. I met early this week with Friends of the Earth, which warned that any reduction in ambition in one sector would be the increase of targets for other sectors to impossible levels. Indeed, in the words of Professor Hannah Daly,...