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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50151/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: This week marks Baby Loss Awareness Week, an opportunity for people to mark the personal tragedy of a pregnancy loss. Miscarriage in the later stages of pregnancy gives women the right to take maternity leave but those who lose a pregnancy earlier in the term have no right to paid time off work to recover. We in the Labour Party brought forward legislation to give women paid time off, up to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I have listened carefuly to the Taoiseach's answer and every time I raise housing or the appalling and shocking figure of 5,000 children in homelessness with him, he engages in what I may describe as classic deflection tactics. Previously when I raised the failure to sustain the tenant in situ scheme, a scheme we welcomed, the Taoiseach blamed local authorities. Now he is blaming judicial...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We welcomed that and we welcomed tenant in situ but I am asking the Taoiseach this again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am putting forward to him a constructive way to address the scourge of child homelessness and he has not answered that question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Evictions are hugely important.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh all the visitors in the Public Gallery and the Distinguished Visitors Gallery. The Taoiseach just said that housing is the single biggest issue facing us. We all agree on that but I do not know whether the Taoiseach agrees that the housing system is broken. It has been commodified and marketised. The private rental sector is filling the gaps left by lengthy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Will the Government take a radical step to address this and prevent more children falling into homelessness and consider introducing a temporary eviction ban in cases where children are concerned?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It just came out this morning. The PBO tells us that child poverty will increase next year as a result of the budget measures. The Tánaiste said that we should look at the Government's documents. I have looked at this document. We see middle-income households are also hit. The guide provided at the back of the tax policy change document shows this. It shows the changes for...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach said the Opposition was anti-enterprise and not supportive of job creation. The Labour Party-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Excuse me. Labour is the party of jobs. We have a proud record, uniquely in opposition, of job creation. We have a proud record of standing for workers' rights. We do not take economic growth for granted. We welcome measures to support innovation, Enterprise Ireland and the development of AI. We absolutely welcome these, but these positive moves the Government has made are overshadowed...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I first want to thank the Tánaiste for updating the House on the situation with the five Irish citizens illegally detained by Israel on the flotilla. We all think of our colleague, Deputy Heneghan, but also the writer, Ms Naoise Dolan, and the other citizens who were detained. Israel must be held accountable for the breaches of international law. The Tánaiste might please keep us...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There was €600 million in the hospitality package.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Not substantial.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday’s budget was a deep disappointment. There is real anger out there. The Government made choices in this budget that are impacting really adversely on so many people. As my colleague Deputy Nash said in what I think was the line of the day yesterday, this is a budget that is giving handouts to burger barons and big builders, but broken promises for everyone else. People...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Certainly, in last year's budget there was a very different approach taken. It was a giveaway budget to buy people's votes. This year, the Government has made very different choices. Let us be clear about those choices. The Taoiseach referenced child poverty. We in Labour put forward last week a children's budget; a costed set of proposals that would have made meaningful steps to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: No reference to the shocking figure of 5,000 children in homelessness. No reference to the proposal to introduce a second tier of child benefit, which is a really meaningful way in which we could have tackled child poverty. As Deputy Sherlock said, this could have been the game-changer for children and child poverty. Instead, the Government has chosen to give over €600 million in a...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.