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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Even during a cold snap.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We heard today the Cabinet will not approve the updated climate action plan before the Dáil rises for Christmas. I understand the plan is to go to next week’s Cabinet meeting just before Christmas. That means we in opposition will not have the opportunity to scrutinise the plan in a Dáil debate. It means yet another delay in publishing much-needed plans to tackle the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [58885/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture will next meet. [58890/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach again referred to the revised climate action plan due to be brought before Cabinet next week after the Dáil has risen. I reiterate the concern I expressed earlier in the delay in the publication of this climate action plan. Indeed, it feels like Groundhog Day because the sectoral emissions ceiling earlier this year were not published until the Dáil had risen for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [60874/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: The revelations of abuse from Blackrock College and the Spiritan order have led to many more survivors coming forward to disclose abuse in other schools run by religious orders, including the Vincentians, the Dominicans and others. I ask for an update on the Government commitment to hold an inquiry into these abuse claims. It has now been nearly a month since that indication was given, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [58891/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for his briefing and update on LEEF. We know the high-level working group on collective bargaining has reported under the auspices of LEEF. Beyond that, can the Taoiseach say what specific measures the Government will take to improve collective bargaining rates and how to provide for that in law? On a related topic, given the forthcoming EU directive on adequate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: What about my point on collective bargaining?

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: A win on wind is what we all seek to achieve. I welcome the opportunity to speak to this motion on energy and I thank the proposers for giving us the opportunity to debate this very important issue. Clearly, we are in an energy crisis, accompanied by other crises in housing, the cost of living and, of course, the existential climate emergency and this polycrisis is exacerbated by Russia's...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Last week I raised the issue of childcare in this House, and Labour Party Senators put down a motion calling for universal access to childcare and for the Government to ensure that every child will have an early years place. We were disappointed that the Government put down a counter-motion in the Seanad. However, among other things, the Government counter-motion called for a transition to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the French President. [60877/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (14 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [60878/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (14 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [60879/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the ways in which the ongoing review into energy security will integrate sectoral emissions ceiling and carbon budget obligations; his plans to ensure that as-demand reduction measures are prioritised in the review; and the ways in which the principles of a just transition will be integrated into the review. [62757/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Data Centres (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that confirmed data centre connections will not increase emissions; and his plans to ensure that confirmed data centre connections do not lock in higher gas demand. [62758/22]

Death of Private Seán Rooney: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I will join the sentiments expressed by others in expressing my deepest condolences to the families of all those affected by this horrific news from Lebanon, in particular the family of Private Seán Rooney who was killed on duty while serving his country and the United Nations on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. I also extend my deepest condolences to the family of Private Shane...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am conscious, as I think we all are, that this is the Tánaiste's last Leaders' Questions in his current role. I want to bring to his attention the publication just this morning of the final report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality, which I had the honour of chairing. Our report is entitled Unfinished Democracy: Achieving Gender Equality. What we have set out to do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for his undertaking to give a structured response. That is very welcome. I again thank my colleagues on the committee who engaged so constructively and intensively in the work we carried out. There was an immense range of issues that we had to cover in a short timeframe. We had a superb secretariat working with us on that and I thank them as well. I am also...