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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...

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]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Why has there been such a serious delay in legislating to provide for safe access zones around healthcare providers and maternity hospitals where abortions are carried out? This legislation has long been promised by the Government. Indeed, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, promised it back in 2018 when we were debating the abortion legislation. A Private Members' Bill to provide...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: This is a very serious report and I again raise the urgency of providing this important legislation to protect women and healthcare providers.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I will speak on the amendment as we are on Committee Stage. I support the amendment, on behalf of the Labour Party. It relates to an issue I raised during the Second Stage debate on the Bill, namely, the need to ensure adequate integration of renters into the proposed framework in the Bill. Clearly, the rebate for householders will be welcome, but we have criticised it as being inadequate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to examine the concept of trauma-informed practice in education; and if there are plans to roll-out a national framework for trauma-informed education. [7098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the mother and baby institutions payment scheme Bill will provide for access to redress for survivors of institutions not included within the scope of the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes (details supplied). [7093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the mother and baby institutions payment scheme Bill will provide for access to redress for survivors who spent a period of less than six months in an institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is envisaged that applicants for the planned redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby and county homes will be entitled to seek assistance from a solicitor when completing an application. [7095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the interim compensation scheme to ensure that older survivors of mother and baby homes and county homes have timely access to redress. [7096/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline on the passage of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme Bill. [7097/22]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to have the chance to speak on this important Bill and I commend Deputy Carroll MacNeill on her initiative in bringing it forward. It is really important that we are debating this very timely legislation and it is really good to hear the very honest contributions to the debate from the men and women who have spoken. When I was first elected to these Houses in 2007, to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (10 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of higher education institutions and further education providers which are compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WCAG 2.1 standards as is mandatory for mobile applications and websites under European Union and Irish legislation. [7202/22]