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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to address crime and antisocial behaviour in the southeast inner city. [51869/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Legislative Measures (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 826. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her views on the progress to amend the Equality Acts and related legislation to include socioeconomic status as a protected category in the context of discrimination. [52153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (30 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of the revision of the EU Directive on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use, specifically in respect of medicines related to sexual and reproductive health (details supplied); if the Government will support the removal of this provision, in line with the position of several other Member States and with the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I will add that all our thoughts are with those on the flotilla. It is hugely important that Ireland does all it can on the world stage to ensure the safety of those on board. This week, we saw the US President and health secretary coming out with bizarre and unfounded assertions about links between paracetamol and autism. I want to share the horror of AsIAm CEO Adam Harris, who said...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I acknowledge Deputy Heneghan, who is on the flotilla along with other Irish citizens. We wish them all well and hope for their safety. This Government's response to me on climate is another classic exercise in deflection. We heard it earlier during the Government's response to the motion on child poverty and child homelessness. It was deflection and side stepping. Of course this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I think it is a fair critique to make. The Government is not taking climate seriously-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----and we need commitments in this budget that will reassure us and ensure we meet our targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to start by joining in the tributes to Julie Lyons. We wish her and her family well on her well-deserved retirement after 34 years and seeing off nine taoisigh. We will miss her. My colleagues have reminded me just how kind and generous she has always been, particularly to the children who visit this House regularly. That has been really appreciated, and also the way she brought...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to express my condemnation of the attacks last night on the global flotilla for Gaza. Our former constituency colleague Senator Chris Andrews is among the Irish citizens on the flotilla. I urge the Minister to work with EU colleagues to ensure the safety of all those on that flotilla. It is appalling to see attacks in this way, and it is yet another example of Israel feeling it can...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: VAT cuts.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We did.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: You created the crisis.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What an extraordinary attempt at deliberate deflection that was by a Minister who has nothing of substance to say in response to our careful, thoughtful and constructive motion. The Minister asked us about figures from the Labour Party side. There is one very stark figure that should be uppermost in his mind and uppermost in the minds of all his Government colleagues, and that is the 5,000...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is an utterly shameful figure. It represents a record high in the numbers of children who are without a home under the Minister's watch. He can deflect and seek to scapegoat others all he likes, but this is under his watch. He is the Minister for housing, and it is simply not good enough to say he will be taking decisive decisions to reduce and take children out of homelessness. How is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: All of us are appalled to learn of the stabbings of a teenager and of a tourist in his 20s in Dublin over the weekend. We all think of those who have been injured and of their families. News of these attacks put fear into people. Knife crime is a real concern for many, particularly in Dublin city centre. An Garda Síochána, to much fanfare from the Minister's side of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It has been spent. No new acquisitions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Our motion tomorrow.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Of course increasing supply is a huge part of resolving the housing crisis. We will be putting forward constructive, costed proposals in our alternative budget next week, just as we did in our manifesto last year, on how to increase the supply. The reality is that the Government has not met its own targets on house building. The Minister knows that. On the tenant in situ scheme, of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The families of one in five children in Ireland, which means more than 225,000 children, now live below the breadline. Ours is a relatively wealthy country and yet more than 5,000 children are homeless. Those are 5,000 children in emergency accommodation who are doing their homework on the floors of hotel rooms or family hubs. Far too many are living in overcrowded homes with multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (23 Sep 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the need for all OPW-managed sites to have life-saving equipment. [49895/25]