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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has read a report (details supplied), specifically as it relates to pay for early years' educators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19604/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of childcare provision in Tubbercurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19606/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on proposed research on early learning and care, and school-age childcare need of parents who work atypical hours or live in rural communities, and develop recommendations for future action, as required by the Rural Development Policy 2021-2025. [19608/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 499. To ask the Minister for Health the average time between the making of a call to emergency services and deployment of members of the Ambulance Service, in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [19113/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 673. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report her representations to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding research on early learning and care, and school-age childcare needs of parents who work atypical hours or live in rural communities, and develop recommendations for future action, as required by the Rural...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: On Friday we learned that homelessness figures have risen yet again to almost 12,000 people, which represents a 2.1% increase month on month. These figures relate to the period just before the lifting of the eviction ban took effect. I shudder to think what the figure for next month will be, as the evictions allowed to proceed by the Government come into force. These figures show that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with the Taoiseach. I think he is right. Of course homelessness is a stain on our society. It is shameful that we have nearly 12,000 people in homelessness at a time when the country is running very significant budget surpluses, with over €5 billion of a surplus last year. I disagree with him, however, on the eviction ban. We have heard from all of those working with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I raise a real issue facing real workers. As the INMO conference gets under way this week, over 700 patients are waiting on trolleys. It is an outrageous figure, but one that has somehow become the new normal under this Government. To still have over 700 patients waiting for beds in May, well past the peak of respiratory illnesses, is indicative of a year-round trolley crisis. Our...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: First, I want to condemn the sectarian abuse of a young mother in Lurgan on Sunday, which we know about because a camera captured the footage of what happened. The report highlights how much more we have to do to achieve a lasting peace. I was unable to attend statements in the Dáil last week to mark 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement because I was in Brussels, but my colleague...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The North has been given a temporary reprieve, we understand, for a £300 million overspend but it is reported today that Stormont officials from the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council believes that £800 million needs to be found. This is a shortfall which will be devastating for public services in Northern Ireland if this is not resolved. It demonstrates the urgent need for an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [20420/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Taoiseach’s commitment to hold the gender equality referendum in November. As the Taoiseach said, this is the referendum which was recommended by the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality and also recommended by our own special committee on gender equality which I had the honour of chairing. As the Taoiseach knows, in our report from December, Unfinished...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: In recent months, we have seen announcement after announcement of layoffs across many big technology companies, in particular, in Dublin. The impact of these redundancies has obviously been huge for those directly and indirectly impacted, not only in my own constituency of Dublin Bay South but across the country. The impact is more worrying where there are concerns regarding a lack of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [20422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Valuation Office (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average processing time for valuations to be processed by the Valuation Office; if there is a difference in processing times between different types of properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20391/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Valuation Office (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the delays in the Valuation Office in processing properties seeking a rates exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20392/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the regulations on service charges and sinking funds, as required under sections 18.17 and 19.9 of the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011, will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the reasons they were not introduced in quarter 4 of 2022, as indicated in the Housing for All plan. [20636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Education and Training Provision (3 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on talks with Trinity College Dublin about funds for counselling psychologists; and when he anticipates the details of the agreement will be published. [20613/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach will be aware of the appalling situation for Micheline Walsh and her husband facing homelessness in Dublin in their late 70s with nowhere to go after being served with an eviction notice. The local Labour councillor Peter O'Brien is now assisting this family but, unfortunately, they are not the only ones. It is unconscionable to see that 175 people over 65, pensioners,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Finding solutions of course should be the priority but the Taoiseach's Government has patently failed to find necessary solutions. Time after time we hear the Taoiseach say that family homelessness and child homelessness is a stain on our society as if he was an observer. The Taoiseach is in government and has been in government for several terms. The Taoiseach needs to ensure that action...