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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We have consistently raised this for five years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----we believe the hospital must be built on publicly-owned land. Without that freehold public ownership, our concerns about control and governance remain. They are concerns that arise from any close reading of the text of the documents that have been published. They are around the €850,000 penalty rent clause, the right of the landlord to appoint directors, the right of those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----then why not put the matter beyond legal doubt and place the site in public ownership? Seek that the site be gifted to the State or to be sold at a nominal fee to the State, as was the original plan. Why, back in 2017, did the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, decide to proceed with this convoluted legal arrangement, rather than insisting then, as the Labour Party said he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am asking about this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Developments over recent days have just compounded our concerns about the proposed new national maternity hospital. Our concerns persist. They are valid and legitimate concerns that remain around the ownership, control and governance of the proposed hospital. The core question for the Labour Party remains that of ownership. It is freehold ownership. We are talking about ownership in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 151. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. [22898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to address the situation with regard to inheritance tax for single persons or childless married couples (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons that the capital expenditure for his Department is €228 million lower in the first four months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021; if the pandemic lockdown in 2021 impacted on capital spending flows in that period and follow through in the past four months; if so, the individual project impacts of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons that capital investment in 2022 for his Department is currently €125 million below profile; the portion of this that relates to the provision of housing; the amount of the total €1.3 billion in additional capital funding for his Department in 2022 that relates to additional housing provision; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding amount due by religious institutions in the residential institutional redress board scheme; the amount that is due by each of the religious institutions in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23313/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will task JobsIreland and the Intreo service with supporting Ukrainian refugees and others in the international protection system in assisting them in securing skills appropriate employment opportunities that matches their educational and work experience, knowledge and expertise, or if she has plans to pilot such a...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to share time with my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith. I thank the Ministers, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, Coveney and O'Gorman, for updating us on the Government's response to Russian war of brutal aggression on a peaceful democratic country. I will start by commending the Government on the generosity of spirit that it and the Irish people have shown in their approach in...

Living Wage Bill 2022: First Stage (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to the determination, declaration and review of a national minimum hourly rate of pay for employees so as to arrive at and thereafter preserve an hourly rate that represents a living income; and to provide for related matters. It is timely that I seek to introduce this Bill today, because last...

Living Wage Bill 2022: First Stage (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I outlined yesterday the ongoing concerns the Labour Party has regarding the ownership, governance and control of the proposed new national maternity hospital. We welcomed the publication of certain relevant documents on the HSE website and the Government delaying the decision in this regard. Having listened to the exchanges this morning, however, it seems the Government is not proposing to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 99. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will designate retail pharmacy as a critical skills shortage in Ireland. [22517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of the household benefits package to the State from 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pharmacy Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for a new pathway for experienced pharmacy technicians to become fully qualified; and if he envisages the introduction of part-time qualification courses. [22518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for an increase in the number of Irish university places for pharmacy. [22519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service that are being held purely on remand for between one and two years and two years or more. [22521/22]