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Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (5 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 756. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government will commit to commissioning updated research into suicide in the Traveller community. [35714/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (5 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 864. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to compile updated data on the prevalence of autism in Ireland [36218/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (5 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 866. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to introduce new guidance for health service providers on the way to meet the needs of persons with autism and their families and carers. [36227/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (5 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 867. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to develop further services to address the needs of children and adults with autism; and if the implementation of such services will be informed by feedback from members of the autism community. [36228/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise again the issue of the housing crisis, the crisis that our President has described as a disaster. Yesterday's Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report has confirmed yet again the scale of failure over successive years to ensure that people have adequate homes and the right to a home. Since this Government assumed office, rents have increased by 15%, house prices...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with the Minister. It is about delivery. In fact, in this case it is about the lack of delivery. What I am hearing from renters or those aspiring to own a home but cannot do so, and indeed from people who are seeking to build homes to deliver on housing, is that there is a lack of delivery and urgency in delivery by Government. Certainly, very welcome measures have been announced...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Jul 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure the Minister received emails as I have this week from constituents alarmed at recent media reports about the negotiations on sectoral emissions targets. I met early this week with Friends of the Earth, which warned that any reduction in ambition in one sector would be the increase of targets for other sectors to impossible levels. Indeed, in the words of Professor Hannah Daly,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome our witnesses and I am delighted to see them all here in person. It is lovely to be back in in-person settings. Members have the option of being physically present in the committee room or may join the meeting, as quite a number are, via Microsoft Teams from their Leinster House offices. Members may not participate in the meeting from outside parliamentary precincts. If joining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Professor Lynch and I congratulate her on the publication of her book, On Care and Capitalism, which is very much relevant, not only to her submission today, but to our consideration of the recommendations. I thank Professor Lynch also for the very detailed comments she has given us in her appendix, on the individual recommendations of the assembly. They are very welcome. I ask Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you very much, Ms Hughes, and for reminding us that it is national carer's week. It is Bloomsday today as well. I invite Mr. John Dunne and Ms Clare Duffy from Family Carers Ireland to make their opening statements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The script has me down as Mr. Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Dunne for that and the detailed account of some of the anomalies. It was very helpful to us. As he said, the Citizens' Assembly had some very clear recommendations, particularly on the reform of the carer's allowance. I thank Mr. Dunne for his insights into Article 41.2. He and Ms Hughes are on the same page. The Citizens' Assembly recommendation speaks of deleting and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is recommendation No. 9 of the Citizens' Assembly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That was a really interesting insight. I thank Ms Duffy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Professor Lynch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Ms Hughes for that. I am conscious of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for those very interesting insights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Answering that is no easy task. That was a long question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Mr. Dunne. It is helpful to hear the practical side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Professor Lynch for that. I think Ms Duffy wants to come back in.