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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to hear the news hot off the press that a space survey will be carried out by the HEA and that the Minister will launch the new phase of capital investment calls later this week. It is welcome that will include this emphasis on universal design principles. What both I and the Labour Party spokesperson on higher education, Senator Hoey, have been hearing is that many students...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister. The NCBI told us recently that lack of access to curriculum and learning materials is one of the main factors preventing students with visual impairments from reaching their potential. Building on the remarks of the Minister, it also reported that the number of students with disabilities in third level is growing, which is very welcome and largely to do with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will commission an audit of buildings and teaching practices in third-level institutions to determine the accommodations that must be made for students with a disability. [5972/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I ask the Minister whether his Department will commission an audit of buildings and teaching practices in third-level institutions to determine the accommodations that can, and must, be made to enable greater access to students with disabilities.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his engagement with organisations (details supplied) with respect to the examination of academic support activities of PhD students. [5978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the resumption of in-person tuition and related activities; the measures that will be put in place to support students who are immunocompromised following the lifting of most public health restrictions in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department will take to support incoming senior cycle students whose education experience at a junior cycle level has been severely disrupted due to the pandemic particularly in the context of their inexperience in sitting State examinations. [6702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way her Department is supporting primary and secondary schools to support students’ mental health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has consulted with third-level institutions and the Minister for Justice in respect of a situation which has arisen during the pandemic in which non-European Union students who return home during the academic year and who are unable to return to Ireland for reasons relating to the pandemic miss deadlines for visa renewal; and if he will...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am contributing from within Leinster House. I thank the Minister for that outline of the revised Estimates. There is much to welcome, particularly the increases as outlined by the Minister. The capital allocation for international protection seekers is very welcome also. I have a number of questions related to adequacy of funding, and whether the increases the Minister has described...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Survivors are keen to have the redress scheme up and running as soon as possible and we will all work constructively with the Department on that. Is it possible to have interim payments made to survivors?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if specific plans are in place to address generalised anxiety among teenagers arising from pandemic-related stress. [6704/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak for the Labour Party on this Bill and to express our disappointment that this is what we are seeing from the Government as a way of addressing the crisis in the cost of living that is sweeping across the country and affecting every community. As we are coming through the crisis of the pandemic, the Government has to confront the twin crises of the climate...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department is putting in place to support children and young persons in Ireland’s development, following the easing of public health restrictions in January 2022. [5484/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Rights of the Child in respect of Domestic and International Surrogacy: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank all the witnesses for those helpful and insightful contributions. It is very important to get the legal perspectives and to hear the experiences of those families most directly affected. I was glad to support Equality for Children, which co-hosted the event outside Leinster House in November with Irish Families Through Surrogacy. It was good to meet the witnesses at that time and...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Rights of the Child in respect of Domestic and International Surrogacy: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Those were great responses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 490 and 491 of 19 January 2022, the timeline for the publication of the report mentioned. [5142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is on schedule to move to its permanent premises for September 2023 given delays in the commencement of building work on that site. [4859/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (1 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 814. To ask the Minister for Health the process being put in place as part of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to gather data on the experiences of women who have had to travel outside of the State to access abortion services since the commencement of the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5143/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to speak for the Labour Party on this important Bill. I am grateful to my colleague Senator Hoey, who is our spokesperson on higher education, for giving me the benefit of her insights. Obviously, I too have a strong interest in this area, having served a number of terms as a Senator for Dublin University. I am also very proud of my long association with the law school in Trinity...