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Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: "Nobody is treating this like the house is on fire". Those are the words that 12-year-old Cara Darmody used to describe her frustration at the lack of supports for autistic people and children in Ireland. She used them when addressing the Joint Committee on Autism in November alongside her dad Mark, when they spoke about their experiences seeking services for her brothers. I welcome Cara,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I want to speak with the Taoiseach about provision for children. First, I welcome the intervention by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, in response to our Labour Party motion on services for autistic children and children with disabilities. I commend the Minister of State on committing to bring our Labour Party proposal to Cabinet. If six regional testing teams are not functional by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Certainly, I agree that budget surpluses do give choices but the kite flying by the Taoiseach's own party this week suggests that his choice is to insist on a Fine Gael ideological agenda of tax cutting at the expense of providing the necessary public investment to deliver services for people who are struggling to make ends meet. It is at the expense of investment in meaningful measures to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: The figures show it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Employees in Meta's Irish operation are set to be informed of further layoffs today. This is distressing news for so many. This year, we have heard many announcements of tech redundancies with a repeated pattern in tech companies of employees being hired en masseand then fired, again in large numbers, for the sake of so-called efficiency. In these difficult times, we in the Labour Party...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [22863/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update them. [22864/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [22865/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (16 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a delegation of workers (details supplied) who are facing redundancy and are in Ireland on Stamp 1 working visas, who are highly skilled workers and would like to remain in Ireland but may now be facing the prospect of having to return to dangerous and often precarious situations in their home countries,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday came more bad news for those who work in the tech sector with the announcement that there will be almost 500 job losses at Meta's operation here in Ireland. Wen mortgages and rents are at an all-time high and the cost of everyday basics continues to rise, this is very difficult news for all those affected, many in my constituency of Dublin Bay South. I express my solidarity and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for acknowledging his concern for the employees affected. We all share that concern. We are all thinking of the workers and their families who are awaiting the news as to who will be affected by the announcement from Meta. The question for the Government is what to do next in the context of a massive budget surplus. Certainly kite flying from Ministers in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Today marks five years since the result of the referendum in which the people voted overwhelmingly to remove the eight amendment from the Constitution. We saw a very welcome change in the law to enable women to access abortion services here in Ireland. Five years on, however, too many women are still not able to access abortion here. We know that more than 770 women have travelled to...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to have the opportunity to address the House on biodiversity during National Biodiversity Week. I have spoken previously about hearing, back in 2021, what was a very poignant programme on the BBC World Service, which will have been heard by other insomniacs who tune into the radio late at night. On that programme, a really haunting recording of the song of the ivory-billed...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Yes. Hear, hear.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I commend Deputy Bríd Smith and her colleagues on bringing forward this Bill and giving us the opportunity to discuss and debate the issue of access to abortion services in Ireland five years on from the historic result in the repeal referendum when 66.4% of us voted "Yes" to repeal the eighth amendment and to ensure that women in Ireland would have access to the abortion healthcare we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: We need a debate about the pay and conditions of retained firefighters. The Taoiseach will be aware that there was a breakdown in negotiations between the National Retained Firefighters Association and Government agencies earlier this month. We know that retained firefighters have very onerous conditions. They must be other call for 24 hours a day for a minimum 48 hours for 48 weeks of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Friday's homelessness figures marked yet another shameful milestone, with 12,259 people now recorded as homeless, including more than 4,000 children. This morning, stark testimony was given to the housing committee by representatives of Threshold, the Simon Communities and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, which reminded Oireachtas Members that the 12,000 plus figure recorded by the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: -----in the allocation of housing. Will the Government support the Bill, as Focus Ireland has sought, and ensure it is brought into law?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (30 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Is any investigation planned or proposed into the immigrant investor programme? This was otherwise known as the "golden passport" scheme. It closed to new applicants on 15 February this year. Quite a number of concerns have been raised about how it operated, to whom it applied and so on. It was often referred to, as I said, as a golden passport or a passport for investors. What brought...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [22861/23]