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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Protection (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State contracts to host refugees in 2023; and his plans to ensure any shortfall in accommodation is made up. [2747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the maternity in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the need to require of pension providers that they disclose the portion of any pension fund available for investment here is made up of fossil fuel assets and that they provide an option to pension holders to opt for a fund which does not include fossil fuel; her Department’s role in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the policy preventing access to the working family payment for persons who are self-employed; and if she has plans to broaden access to the payment. [3348/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 422. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State contracts to host refugees in 2023; and his plans to ensure any shortfall in accommodation is made up. [2748/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (24 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 643. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce greater prescription powers to pharmacists to reduce the burden on GPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3349/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the slow-down in the construction of social housing, and on the implications of this slowing-down for renters reliant on the housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3749/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I ask for the Minister's views on the slowdown in the construction of social housing and the implications of this slowdown for renters reliant on the housing assistance payment, HAP, the repeated failure to meet housing targets for social homes for the past three years in a row and the implications this has for recipients of HAP in particular.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We all await those figures for quarter 4 with great interest. I agree with the Minister and I have raised many times the need to ramp up the tenant in situscheme, and I think there is cross-party agreement on that. However, listening to the figures that the Minister is giving and looking at the Housing Commission report today, it is hard to see the value of the targets being set by the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Listening again to the points about targets, the Minister acknowledged there has been under-delivery for years. The reality is that no matter what targets are set and what figures the Government gives, the experience of people who approach my office and the offices of other Members every day is that they simply cannot find homes, particularly people seeking help to find a social home. It is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In a few minutes, the Save our Forests - Save our Land coalition, which Labour is glad to support, will gather outside Leinster House to voice our opposition to the Coillte-Gresham House deal. It is a deal which we believe is wrong on many levels. I have already voiced my grave concerns about it in this House, as have my colleagues, Deputies Kelly and Sherlock. It will fundamentally be an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The inadequacy of the plans is baffling. It seems that the Government cannot see the wood for the trees, if I may say. Failures in the licensing system have made the large-scale planting of trees and woodlands an impossible endeavour for many farmers and nurseries. The delays are leading to many dropping out of the system. I have been told that approximately one third of those approved...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister has accused me of misrepresenting the Government's position but the reality, as he admitted himself, is that there is a forestry strategy which is not operational. It is not having any impact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The key problem is that it is not having an impact. We are hearing from those involved in forestry and nurseries, including farmers and environmentalists, that it is simply not operational. The Minister of State, Senator Hackett, told the Seanad earlier this week that the state aid application has not yet been submitted. The Minister said it himself. He plans to go to Brussels but has not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Coillte deal is not the answer. The Minister said that himself. His Government colleagues have been critical of it too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: When is the state aid application going in?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It is not. We are agreed on that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We all appreciate the immense work done by the staff in the community and voluntary sector in caring for so many across society as they support people in homelessness and addiction, and in staffing refuges and rape crisis centres. Yet, such workers are paid much less than equivalent staff employed directly by the State, despite many of them propping up many State services. In October last...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 38. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [3344/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Jan 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility criteria for the proposed construction defects redress scheme. [3748/23]