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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Housing First tenancies that have materialised as targeted under 3.4 of Housing For All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7331/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the expansion of data-sharing arrangements between the Residential Tenancies Board and the Revenue Commissioners under target 2.6 of Housing For All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7330/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department maintains figures on the number of households in receipt of the housing assistance payment that are making additional contributions to their landlord; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7332/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (14 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 859. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the three-year deadline under section 26(5) of the Child and Family Relationships Act 2015, for use of anonymous gametes in existence prior to the commencement of the Act to five years in line with the conventional period of storage of gametes and embryos within fertility clinics in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Amendments (15 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 34. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his plans for constitutional amendments. [6930/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 35. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [6931/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: As homelessness figures continue to break records, we know many people are entering homelessness from the private rental sector. It is nearly two weeks since the Dáil debated a Labour Party Private Members' motion putting forward eight constructive measures to alleviate the worst effects of the housing crisis, including the extension of the eviction ban. The Government voted against...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In today's mini-budget, which is not a mini-budget, we will see a decision to bring forward more one-off payments. This is an admission that the Taoiseach and the Government got it wrong in budget 2023 and that wages and social welfare payments in particular are still too low. After these new one-off payments are made, the reality is that incomes will still be too low and will not keep pace...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [6925/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: What work is being done to ensure greater Government co-ordination in policy decisions being taken at Government level with regard to the accommodation of refugees and those seeking asylum and international protection? For months, I have consistently raised the need for a more co-ordinated approach on the part of Government to the provision of accommodation and of information to communities...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: It was subsequently rolled out by the states.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2022 will be published. [8207/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We welcome the establishment of the citizens' assembly on drug use, but I ask the Taoiseach about the status of the commitment to establish a citizens' assembly on the future of education. Is there a timeline for its establishment and will it examine both the future purpose of the education system and the issue of separation of Church and State within the education system? Second, building...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [8206/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise two specific issues. In October, the Labour Party brought forward a motion calling for pay rises for workers in the community and voluntary sector, in line with Building Momentum. Indeed, the Fórsa national executive has backed a proposal for strike action in section 39 agencies funded by the HSE. At the weekend, the Minister for Health announced €81 million in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday, the Taoiseach revealed to me in this House that the Government will make a decision on whether to extend the eviction moratorium in the next two to three weeks. The current moratorium will end on 31 March. By the Taoiseach's own account, the Government is giving itself until 15 March to make a decision. However, people across the country...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We can disagree about the name of the package of measures the Government announced yesterday. However, I would like us to at least be able to agree that those in rental accommodation should be given some clarity about when the announcement will be made regarding whether the eviction ban will be extended. Will it happen before the St. Patrick's Day recess, for example? People deserve to...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to express my disappointment at the way this is being handled by Government. As it happens, the Labour Party was happy to sign up to the original draft of the motion circulated to us by Government. We believe it is very important that all of us, on a cross-party basis, express solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the way that was originally intended. When that motion was not...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I express, in strong terms, my disappointment and concern at the way this has been done. For those of us who signed up in good faith to the original text of the motion - I have now read the Government's proposed motion that just came through - it is most inappropriate that there is such a short timeframe for Opposition leaders to prepare significant enough speeches of five or ten minutes....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise the serious news that Google has announced that it plans to cut 240 from its Irish workforce. My thoughts today, like those of all of us, are with those individuals who are affected by this announcement and with their families. Of course, the job losses will impact those employed by Google within my own constituency of Dublin Bay South, in particular, where Google has a very...