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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Just two hours ago, along with fellow Oireachtas Members, a large number of us took to the streets on our bicycles to mark National Bike Week. I thank all those Oireachtas Members who took part, along with Oireachtas staff and cyclist.ie. Bicycles are the transport of the future. They are good for the planet, good for cities and towns and good for our health. Right now, far too many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Not enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: This week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: As the Minister said, it is over a year since the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine. That is over a year in which the Government could and should have pulled together a more coherent, co-ordinated and joined-up response to this crisis. She spoke of a cross-governmental approach but there is no sense of leadership from the Taoiseach on this matter. Instead we heard him seeking to deflect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Along with my Labour colleagues, I condemn outright the horrific attacks that took place in my constituency this weekend with the burning of tents on Sandwith Street and the intimidation of individuals forced to sleep in tents in and around the Mount Street area. I met with these people over the weekend. I met with people who travelled to Ireland to seek refuge and to make a contribution to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a delegation of workers (details supplied) who are facing redundancy and are in Ireland on Stamp 1 working visas, who are highly skilled workers and would like to remain in Ireland but may now be facing the prospect of having to return to dangerous and often precarious situations in their home countries,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: This morning, my Labour Party colleagues and I met with Cara Darmody and her father, Mark, from Ardfinnan in County Tipperary. Cara is only 12 years old but she has already become an impressive and powerful advocate on behalf of children with autism, autistic children, who are being denied services in this country. She has spoken out on behalf on her family about their struggle to get...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier this week I raised with the Taoiseach the desperate case of Micheline Walsh and her husband, who are in their late 70s and facing eviction. I said then they were not alone and, very sadly, today we see a report from Alone and Threshold on older and ageing persons in the private rental sector. The report notes 40% of older people who are now renting expect to have to continue renting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for the response. I commend the authors of the report from Threshold and Alone, because they have shone a spotlight on what is, as the Minister has acknowledged, a problem we are going to see increasing with an ageing population and the ticking time bomb resulting from the chronic housing shortage. However, the Minister's Government needs to do something about this....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the North Sea Summit. [21486/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to return also to the issue of offshore wind. I have raised already the frustration among stakeholders with the delays in getting the infrastructure up and running, particularly for floating offshore wind. We constantly hear from the Government about the enormous potential of offshore wind, but there has been such immense delay in getting these projects started. What is the State...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise another problem with the tenant in situscheme that has come to my attention, along with the difficulties with a lack of capacity in local authorities. Owing to the chronic shortages in housing in Dublin, including in my constituency of Dublin Bay South, many people are in house-shares with different types of tenure and lone parents, older people and a mix of full private rent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [21480/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I join with others in calling for a re-municipalisation of waste services, including green waste services. I will host a briefing by the Fórsa union in the audiovisual room at 3 p.m. on precisely that topic. Fórsa will present research it has conducted into this issue. I ask the Taoiseach to engage with the union on that. I also raise the issue of offshore wind and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [21481/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know if the Taoiseach has ever read the classic text The Ragged Trousered Philanthropistsby the Irish author, Robert Tressell. We celebrated Tressell’s legacy in Liberty Hall at the weekend, with Mick Lynch, the leader of the British union, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, RMT, speaking at the event and reminding us of the money trick under...