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

Ivana Bacik: The Government could have done something.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I support Deputy Bríd Smith on that intervention. I welcome the news that the Government is not opposing the Opposition motion on the cost of living tabled by Sinn Féin this evening. The Taoiseach indicated that the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, will meet with the retail forum this week. Can the Taoiseach commit to giving Government time next week to debate this really...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Prices relating to groceries, food and basic commodities are rising, and workers are struggling. Yet many corporations are not supporting the struggles of their staff. Several Tesco workers who work on the front line in packing and delivering food to people in communities across the country have come to me to share stories of how their wages are being cut due to roster changes. One...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [20421/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach which Cabinet committee deals with ethics reform; and when it will next meet. [21482/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I raise first the plight of those seeking international protection who have, shamefully, been left without accommodation. Several hundred persons now have no place to go, despite having arrived here seeking refuge. The Taoiseach will be aware that in my constituency, up to 40 tents are now camped in Mount Street outside the International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, office. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the publication of the fifteenth interim report of the IBRC Commission of Investigation. [19244/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the update. I note the extension has been granted until 31 May. Does the Taoiseach expect that deadline will be met? He has given some indication of costs to date but not including third party legal costs. Does he have any expectation of what the final legal cost is likely to be? I also raise the proposed commission of investigation into abuse in the Defence...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [21485/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I raise the issue of Russians ships off our coast, as others have done. I express concern about this. It is of a particular concern when we note just how brutally Russia continues to bombard Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities this week, more than a year after the brutal invasion of Ukraine. I express solidarity with the people of Ukraine as this awful war continues. What is the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I do not know if the Taoiseach has ever read the classic text The Ragged Trousered Philanthropistsby the Irish author, Robert Tressell. We celebrated Tressell’s legacy in Liberty Hall at the weekend, with Mick Lynch, the leader of the British union, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, RMT, speaking at the event and reminding us of the money trick under...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [21481/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I join with others in calling for a re-municipalisation of waste services, including green waste services. I will host a briefing by the Fórsa union in the audiovisual room at 3 p.m. on precisely that topic. Fórsa will present research it has conducted into this issue. I ask the Taoiseach to engage with the union on that. I also raise the issue of offshore wind and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [21480/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise another problem with the tenant in situscheme that has come to my attention, along with the difficulties with a lack of capacity in local authorities. Owing to the chronic shortages in housing in Dublin, including in my constituency of Dublin Bay South, many people are in house-shares with different types of tenure and lone parents, older people and a mix of full private rent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the North Sea Summit. [21486/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to return also to the issue of offshore wind. I have raised already the frustration among stakeholders with the delays in getting the infrastructure up and running, particularly for floating offshore wind. We constantly hear from the Government about the enormous potential of offshore wind, but there has been such immense delay in getting these projects started. What is the State...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Earlier this week I raised with the Taoiseach the desperate case of Micheline Walsh and her husband, who are in their late 70s and facing eviction. I said then they were not alone and, very sadly, today we see a report from Alone and Threshold on older and ageing persons in the private rental sector. The report notes 40% of older people who are now renting expect to have to continue renting...