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Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to share time with my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith. I thank the Ministers, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, Coveney and O'Gorman, for updating us on the Government's response to Russian war of brutal aggression on a peaceful democratic country. I will start by commending the Government on the generosity of spirit that it and the Irish people have shown in their approach in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: My amendment No. 51 is about the right to repair, and specifically around diagnosis, maintenance and repair of electronic equipment. The amendment, which I submitted for the Labour Party, forms the basis of a Bill we were preparing to bring forward, that we say is an integral part of any sort of circular economy approach. We are hopeful that the Minister of State might agree to it in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for his response and for acknowledging the information and power imbalance between consumers and manufacturers that the right to repair principle seeks to address. As he said, it is a critical part of any circular economy approach. We had an exchange previously in the Dáil Chamber and the Minister of State referred then to ongoing developments at EU level...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 99. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will designate retail pharmacy as a critical skills shortage in Ireland. [22517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of the household benefits package to the State from 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pharmacy Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for a new pathway for experienced pharmacy technicians to become fully qualified; and if he envisages the introduction of part-time qualification courses. [22518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for an increase in the number of Irish university places for pharmacy. [22519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service that are being held purely on remand for between one and two years and two years or more. [22521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if guidelines are given to individual prisons in the drawing up of regime management Plans; and, if so, if those guidelines include reference to the need to ensure effective sentence management with a view to rehabilitation and prevention of re-offending. [22522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will be publishing the completed Office of the Inspector of Prisons reports into the Midlands Prison, Loughan House, Castlerea Prison and the Dóchas centre. [22523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 242. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the position regarding the shortage of retail pharmacists in Ireland; if he has heard reports that some pharmacies face closure and reduced services as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of designated cancer centres that have an established, designated service to address the psycho-social needs of patients with cancer and their families to date in tabular form; the number of positions across the designed centres that have been funded to date versus the target number; and the number of the funded positions that have been filled to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the progress of the National Lymphoedema Clinical Guidelines. [22525/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris. Before we begin, members now have the option of being physically present or may join via Microsoft Teams from their Leinster House offices but may not participate in the meeting from outside the parliamentary precincts. We know the protocol for Teams. To limit the risk of spreading...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister. I gave him some leeway with the time as there was a lot in his opening statement. I thank him for engaging so comprehensively and specifically with the recommendations. I call Deputy Cannon, followed by Deputy Clarke.