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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----then why not put the matter beyond legal doubt and place the site in public ownership? Seek that the site be gifted to the State or to be sold at a nominal fee to the State, as was the original plan. Why, back in 2017, did the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, decide to proceed with this convoluted legal arrangement, rather than insisting then, as the Labour Party said he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am asking about this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am seeking clarity on the issues and I am certainly not questioning the Taoiseach's bona fides. All of us want to see a new, state of the art, modern National Maternity Hospital but we want to see it done right. We do not want to see the mistakes of the past repeated whereby the State has poured millions of euro into maintaining publicly funded hospitals and schools on land that remains...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We protested in 2016.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We have consistently raised this for five years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [21856/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I also raise the issue of better services for children with educational needs, in particular for children with autism. I was glad to join the Families United for Services and Support protest outside the Dáil last Friday. I heard some powerful testimonies from parents and from young adults who had been failed by a system that simply could not provide them with the supports they needed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [21060/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I would like to raise the issue of the long delays in the roll-out of free GP care for children. In 2015, funding was secured for the extension of free GP care to all children under 12 but this was not rolled out. Again in 2020, the then Minister, Deputy Harris, announced free GP care for children aged 12 and under on a phased basis, with six- and seven-year-olds first. In the most recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [22895/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We all share the view the Taoiseach expressed yesterday that it is now incumbent, following the elections, that political parties in Northern Ireland would form a functioning Executive. There are seriously worrying developments, with the DUP demanding the removal and replacement of the protocol, it appears, before it returns to the Executive and with reports stating that the British Foreign...

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I welcome the opportunity to speak today to mark Europe Day. It is a particularly auspicious date as today we also mark 50 years since the referendum to join the then European Economic Community was held and passed in Ireland. Since then the EU has driven social and economic change across Ireland, for the most part for the better. In particular, the equal...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 151. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. [22898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to address the situation with regard to inheritance tax for single persons or childless married couples (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons that the capital expenditure for his Department is €228 million lower in the first four months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021; if the pandemic lockdown in 2021 impacted on capital spending flows in that period and follow through in the past four months; if so, the individual project impacts of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons that capital investment in 2022 for his Department is currently €125 million below profile; the portion of this that relates to the provision of housing; the amount of the total €1.3 billion in additional capital funding for his Department in 2022 that relates to additional housing provision; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding amount due by religious institutions in the residential institutional redress board scheme; the amount that is due by each of the religious institutions in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23313/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will task JobsIreland and the Intreo service with supporting Ukrainian refugees and others in the international protection system in assisting them in securing skills appropriate employment opportunities that matches their educational and work experience, knowledge and expertise, or if she has plans to pilot such a...

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to introduce the Labour Party Living Wage Bill 2022. I propose to share time with my colleague, Deputy Nash. For many years, the Labour Party has campaigned for the introduction of a living wage in Ireland. To do so effectively requires a legislative framework and for that reason we have introduced this Bill. It could...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the ongoing concerns of the Labour Party in respect of the ownership, control and governance of the new national maternity hospital. Since then, I know the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, has been engaging with the Committee on Health. Indeed, the parliamentary Labour Party looks forward to engaging with him. However, we have also seen the...