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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of notices she has served to schools for additional provision for children with special educational needs under section 37A of the Education Act 1998 in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [11879/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints received by Pobal in respect of reported breaches of core funding for both the underpayment of wages under the agreement, and the failure to implement a fee freeze for clients, in tabular form; the number of disputes which have been resolved for both the underpayment of wages under the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints received by Tusla in respect of reported breaches of required child to staff ratios in early childhood education and care facilities in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of adverse findings made by Tusla in respect of same in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints received by Tusla in respect of unqualified staff caring and educating children in early childhood education and care facilities in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of adverse findings made by Tusla in respect of same in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a review will be completed on the temporary release of certain offences, as required by section 29 of the Judicial Council Act 2019. [11873/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Private Security Services (Amendment) Act 2021 will be fully commenced; when the insertion of definitions of "court messenger" and "enforcement guard" will be inserted into the Principal Act (S.I. No. 379 of 2021); if she will report on the delay of the commencement of the Act; and whether the lifting of the eviction...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving testers in each county, in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form, and if he has plans to recruit additional driving test staff. [12005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people waiting for a driving test in each county in each month since February 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on any change in the waiting times for driving tests. [12006/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On 9 February, six weeks ago now, the Labour Party called for an extension to the eviction ban in our motion. The Government voted it down. It voted down our proposal for a series of constructive measures that would have served to increase the number of homes available to people. Despite positive indications the Government was going to extend the ban in the meantime, at the last minute it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: All this is evidence-based.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach’s response and tone indicate the problem here. The renters listening to him now are the people who are facing the certain knowledge that from 1 April, a notice of termination will take effect, they will face eviction and there is nowhere else for them to go because there is a chronic shortage of housing across the country. We listened to the Taoiseach’s...

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

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, issued a final warning on climate change with some deeply concerning findings including the fact that temperatures have been rising faster in last 50 years than for the previous two millenniums. The science is very clear. There is an urgent need to decarbonise our economy and society. I ask that we would have a debate on...

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

Ivana Bacik: Two weeks ago, news broke that building has been paused on 58 school construction projects around the country, including four urgent school construction projects in my own constituency of Dublin Bay South, two in Harold's Cross and two in Sandymount. All four are Educate Together schools whose campuses I have recently visited. I am getting so much correspondence from parents and staff in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [9677/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, confirmed that it will vote against the British Government's proposals on the Stormont brake on Wednesday. This is of real concern as it is a key part of the Windsor Framework agreement. The DUP's approach now indicates that, sadly, we are no closer to the restoration of the power-sharing Executive and the Stormont Assembly. This clearly has major...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [13427/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The UN IPCC climate report, published yesterday, represents a last wake-up call. Decisions made this decade will have an impact lasting thousands of years. Although the window of opportunity is closing, the report makes clear some feasible and effective options are available to us to reduce emissions. I will ask the Taoiseach about three of them. First, the report states we must phase out...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Dublin 2, 4, and 6 are great.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [13430/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I note the focus on equality in the well-being framework and highlight that this year marks two important anniversaries, namely, the 30th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality through the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 and 40 years since the landmark case taken by our dear colleague Senator Norris to the Supreme Court in 1983. In that context, have all Government...