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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [58884/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: There remains a chronic shortage of speech and language therapy and physiotherapy services in special schools, with the waiting time for assessment by community disability network teams now being counted in years rather than weeks or months. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the funds allocated in the HSE budget under the progressing disability services, PDS, programme will be used to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the recent US congressional delegation. [58888/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: At the Taoiseach's recent meeting with the US congressional delegation, were the ongoing human rights abuses in Iran raised and, in particular, was there agreement on international action to be taken against the Iranian regime on the basis of its dreadful ill-treatment of protesters there? On that note, will the forthcoming proposal to reopen the Irish Embassy in Tehran be reviewed? This...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Land Issues (29 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 802. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to take into public ownership parts of the countryside and mountainous areas that are not in regular private use to facilitate public recreational use of such lands. [59526/22]

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uachtarán. It is my honour, on behalf of the Labour Party, to welcome her here to address our Oireachtas. I express our appreciation for her warm and optimistic words by way of address to us today. I also thank her for not only quoting our iconic first woman President, Mary Robinson, but also that iconic band the Saw Doctors. We all appreciated her quoting...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uachtarán. It is my honour, on behalf of the Labour Party, to welcome her here to address our Oireachtas. I express our appreciation for her warm and optimistic words by way of address to us today. I also thank her for not only quoting our iconic first woman President, Mary Robinson, but also that iconic band the Saw Doctors. We all appreciated her quoting...

Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I welcome the Bill. I commend the Minister of State on all the work that has been done on its provisions and on the engagement and consultation with the different groups involved. In my role as vice chair of the women's caucus, I am appreciative of the consultation with our members. We had long expressed a desire to see provision made for maternity protection...

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

Ivana Bacik: The Labour Party reiterates its support for the call for more time on Report Stage to debate the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill. It would be sensible to adjourn the debate rather than to conclude the debate after two hours today, and I note the Taoiseach's comments that the whips should co-ordinate on that matter. A substantial number of amendments have been...

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for that engagement. However, I was in London to meet with Keir Starmer and other colleagues from our sister party, the British Labour Party, as well as with the Irish ambassador, Martin Fraser. While we were there, a report was published by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the charity, Save the Children, that made a recommendation central to this point of...

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

Ivana Bacik: Maybe that is what we need.

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

Ivana Bacik: I have a practical question for the Taoiseach on the housing crisis. Last week, I asked about the tenant in situ scheme, which enables local authorities to take into State ownership homes that have been put up for sale and which would otherwise leave a tenant or family at risk of homelessness. I specifically asked if the Government could legislate to enable the Residential Tenancies Board,...

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

Ivana Bacik: It is a practical way to run the scheme.

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

Ivana Bacik: Cuirim fáilte roimh ár gcuairteoirí freisin. Last week, I raised some stories about the human face of the housing crisis. They were stories about people at the sharp end of the housing crisis such as the 27 renters who were renting premises within a stone's throw of where I live in the south city centre off Camden Street that was not suitable for residential accommodation....

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

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for the response. Labour has a proud record of seeking to deliver change to improve conditions for people and ensure we can deliver constructive ways to addresses crises that arise, particularly the housing crisis. What we sought to do with the HAP, about which he will be well aware, was to replace rent supplement, which had become a poverty trap, and to ensure a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: All of us will want to send our thoughts and sympathies to the families of the four-year-old child in north Dublin and the five-year-old child in Belfast who died from strep A in recent days. All of us will be thinking of their families, communities and young classmates who have suffered such devastating news of this terrible loss. There are huge levels of fear, particularly among parents...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Government body that is responsible for the maintenance of public rights of way not created under the Planning and Development Act 2000. [60988/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role of his Department in the Transport Working Group review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; if he can provide an update on when its proposals will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the adequacy of the disabled drivers and disabled passenger scheme in particular. [61005/22]