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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I will ask Mr. Lawler to answer that one. Other members then want to come in. I will come back to Senator Higgins in a second round for the other questions, if that is okay. I call Mr. Lawler. I think the point was about the gendered analysis of beneficiaries under the private pension tax relief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is helpful to hear. We need to go back and look at that recommendation of the Commission on Pensions. There is a gender analysis included in the recommendations in its report.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad the Taoiseach is not here today. It is very important that he is representing Ireland at COP27 in Egypt today because it is vital that we see really strong leadership at national and international level on tackling the climate catastrophe. As COP has got under way, we have been hearing increasingly bleak prognoses from world leaders. We heard António Guterres, UN Secretary...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister. He spoke of progress and of the potential for wind energy, but we have been speaking about this potential for a long time without having put in place the necessary infrastructure to deliver at scale on the sort of energy generation capacity offshore wind can provide. The Minister also spoke of the climate action plan 2023 and said it will go to the Government shortly....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: In the middle of a housing disaster, with a whole generation locked out of affordable home ownership, building is simply not taking place at the scale or speed necessary. Yesterday in Limerick, I saw a promised housing site that has lain idle for decades, despite being in public ownership. It is now in the control of the Land Development Agency which, apparently, has are no plans even to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Will the Bill be with us before Christmas?

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I extend our deepest condolences and sympathies to the people of Creeslough and the broader community in Donegal on the terrible tragedy that struck their community on what was otherwise, until then, a normal Friday afternoon, on 7 October, just a month ago. Even a month on, it is still unbelievable for all of us to recall just how suddenly and brutally ten...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Taoiseach is welcome back from COP27. Yesterday, I welcomed that he was attending COP27 and that the Government was represented there by him. I called for more urgent action here at home to tackle the climate catastrophe. I think it has been promised that we will have a debate on COP27 in the next week or so. I look forward to hearing more about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach. It is indeed sad and difficult news. I know of friends, neighbours and constituents who are in a situation where two partners are both working for tech companies. They have massive mortgages and enormous childcare fees. They are locked into these commitments and are facing an uncertain future in which they see prospective job losses. I absolutely accept there has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the trolley crisis in our public healthcare system. We see 572 patients in hospitals without a bed this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO. Some 100,000 people have gone without a bed so far this year. The public health service is in danger of collapse if this trolley crisis is not resolved. I was in Limerick on Monday and I heard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We will not have sight of that report before we get to finalise our report, when I think about the timing. However, it is good to know that is there so I thank Mr. Hession for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator. A range of issues have been raised. I identified four specific ones. I do not know which of our guests wants to respond first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The point is about inequity. I see Senator Doherty wants to get in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: If Senator Doherty wishes to take up any of the points from Senator Higgins's last contribution, she can do so. Will the Senator confirm that she is in the precincts of Leinster House? She is muted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Doherty is on mute again. We cannot hear her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: That is okay. To clarify, what is the Bill the Senator mentioned at the start of her contribution? She dropped out during the reference and I did not pick it up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The second question was on the Judge Catherine Murphy report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Yes, that is fine. We had a discussion earlier on foot of Senator Higgins's question on the gender impact of new rules around pension entitlements. I am not sure whether Senator Doherty was present for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator for that. Does she have any other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Higgins wants to get in on a third round. At this point, I wish to ask a question relating to recommendation 11. We have covered a broad range of issues within the remit of the witnesses and the remit of the committee. Mr. Hession said that while recommendations 10 to 12, inclusive, on the care of older people and the care of people of disabilities do not fall directly within the...