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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish an expert review group to examine and issue recommendations on the minimum essential qualification of special needs assistants and on the need for continuing professional development. [9989/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air and Water Pollution (24 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has read reports that reduced activity during initial Covid-19 lockdowns prevented more than 800 air pollution-related deaths; and his plans to tackle air pollution in Ireland. [9444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will devise an all-island anti-fracking strategy; and if he has spoken with his counterpart in Northern Ireland in respect of the importation of liquefied natural gas. [9445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Flood Risk Management (24 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of the increased threat of floods in coastal areas due to the climate crisis. [9443/22]

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we debate this Bill, the people of Ukraine are suffering the brutal invasion and bombardment by Russian forces. We are seeing the deaths of children and civilians. That makes us all reflect on the importance and privilege of being able to debate legislation in a debating chamber in a parliament in a peaceful democratic republic. We must all reassert the true value of democracy. The war...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (1 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Irish Water and the Environmental Protection Agency since he assumed office in respect of the level of sewerage that is pumped into Dublin Bay; and the steps that can be taken to address this and to ensure adequate water quality for swimmers. [11672/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on behalf of the Labour Party. The recent report of Amnesty International that we are debating was unequivocal in its findings as to the extent of land seizures, unlawful killings, restrictions on movement, denial of citizenship of Palestinians and other breaches of...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I confirm I am on the Leinster House campus. I thank the Minister for the engagement on these amendments. There was a clearly expressed desire by survivors to see a specific outline of the sorts of records, data and information covered in the legislation. I welcome the Minister engaging on this and the opportunity to come back on Report Stage on these points, given there are so many...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: My amendment No. 104 is in this grouping and it seeks to capture, as Deputy Cairns said, the lived experiences of survivors. As others have done, I pay tribute to the many survivors who have taken the time to email or contact us to describe their experiences and express their desire to see this legislation through and effectively give them a right to information. We are trying effectively...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Amendment No. 104.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: They are all grouped.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I apologise if I am cutting in. I am happy to propose my amendment No. 104.

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: As we debate and celebrate International Women's Day in this peaceful corner of Europe, we all think of the women and children fleeing the brutal bombardment from Russian forces in Ukraine, and we think of all those in Ukraine suffering and enduring under the horrific invasion that is unfolding before us. We are entering the second week of it and we stand in solidarity with the people of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will issue a directive to further and higher education institutions to retain certain flexible teaching mechanisms post-pandemic to support disabled students, those who cannot afford to live in university towns and those who are immunocompromised. [12709/22]

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I commend my colleagues Deputies Nash and Duncan Smith on proposing this important motion. I am proud to speak in support of it. I also pay tribute to our colleague Senator Sherlock, who has done so much to enshrine a right to flexible working in law. I acknowledge how fortunate we all are to be able to stand here in a peaceful parliament debating this issue while bombs are raining down on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed use of the cost rental model for student accommodation. [12711/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he proposes to promote the use of the Irish language in further and higher education institutions. [12710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on statistics released under freedom of information which reveal that 75 reports of sexual harassment were lodged by staff and students in Irish colleges between 2015 and 2020. [12712/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (8 Mar 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request that Eirgrid submit updates regarding grid reinforcement projects to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas [12414/22]