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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 347. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on purchasing specialist fire service vehicles for the Defence Forces fire services in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [45208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of research into the cost of disability here which was commissioned by her Department (details supplied); and when it is expected to be published. [45207/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for the Data Protection Commission in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [45209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to address shortages in the provision of dental services under the medical card scheme in particular as it relates to dental provision for pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44748/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the measures which have been taken to resolve the acute crisis in the provision of dental services under the medical card scheme and in particular as it relates to dental provision for pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45139/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 651. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department will take to provide the necessary capital and revenue resources arising from public health guidelines to facilitating the full reopening and safe operation of day care services. [45140/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the development by his Department of a new strategy to expand afforestation, particularly close to nature forestry and agri-forestry, as outlined in the Programme for Government. [45134/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Land Issues (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the contribution of his Department to the land use review as outlined in the Programme for Government. [45135/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 700. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department has taken to promote close to nature continuous cover forestry systems as outlined in the Programme for Government. [45136/21]

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, and the staff of his office on the publication of the A Better Normal report. It is a very important report and I welcome the opportunity to debate it. I am glad to hear the Minister will meet the ombudsman in the coming weeks to discuss the report. The report points to the need for urgent political and cross-departmental action...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to speak for the Labour Party in support of this motion and commend Deputy Whitmore and her colleagues on bringing it forward. I am glad to have the opportunity to debate the important and pressing issue of data centres in a measured, thoughtful and rational way. The wording of the motion is careful. It simply calls for a pause on the development of data centres and sets out very...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a recent testimony (details supplied) regarding incidents that have had a severe impact on access to education for over half a million children across the Occupied Palestinian Territory; if his attention has been drawn to reports that three out of four attacks were perpetrated by Israeli forces over a...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to contribute to this vitally important debate. The report from the IPCC in August warned us that we are at "code red for humanity". The UN Secretary General recently said that "The alarm bells are deafening [...] Greenhouse gas emissions ... are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk". We face a climate emergency, but we also face a biodiversity...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: This is my first meeting as a member of the committee. I am conscious that other members have already been through some hearings on pre-legislative scrutiny. I welcome the opportunity to be here. I thank the Minister for his outline of the Bill. I was very involved in the Minister's predecessor's attempts, and indeed with other attempts in the past, to try to draft legislation....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his engagement with us, which has been constructive. On his point about the balancing of rights, he said this Bill would seek to flip the rights to ensure the identity and information are given priority over privacy rights and, therefore, it would use a different approach to the previous Bill. Unfortunately, there have been so many iterations of draft legislation on...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I raised the point about how we meet the balancing of rights. Our understanding of what is necessary to carry out that has clearly shifted over time because at one point it was thought the birth parent would require a veto in order for the balance to be constitutionally robust. It seems that now that an information session – the word "session" is a very unlegal word in the Bill...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to speak on behalf of the Labour Party in support of this Bill. I am conscious that this is the third time in two days that we have had the opportunity to have a substantive debate on climate and climate-related issues. It is a sign of the times and how pressing and urgent this issue is. In today's earlier debate, I spoke, as many did, about the IPCC report and the warning that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Sanctions (30 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the registration on 8 September 2021 by the EU Commission of a European Citizens' Initiative (details supplied), if he will raise at EU level the potential for an EU-wide ban on the importation of goods from the occupied territories. [47066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a current campaign (details supplied) which seeks to raise awareness about the intimidation, harassment and obstruction faced routinely by Palestinian children as they try to get safely to their classrooms in the West Bank, Gaza and the occupied territories and about the seriously detrimental impact for their education, safety...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to speak for the Labour Party to support this motion and to have the opportunity to discuss this important issue. I have just come, as has Deputy Funchion, from the hearings of the committee on children, where we heard from a number of witnesses about childcare and issues facing workers in the early years sector. We heard from representatives of SIPTU and its Big Start campaign,...