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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what guidance has been provided to local authorities for the role of a vacant homes officer; if he will provide a copy of any memos, circulars or guidance provided since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52517/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what powers local authorities have to ensure that units in apartments controlled or owned by investment funds are not kept deliberately vacant; if vacant homes officers are allowed to investigate the level of vacancy in apartment complexes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52518/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make a statement on the need for increased veterinary supports in rural areas. [52235/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 439 of 21 November 2023, if he has made representations to his counterparts in Britain and Northern Ireland in respect of ensuring that legislation to prohibit the practice of conversion therapy is sufficient to prevent persons from being sent to Northern Ireland to access...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of IVF-related patients accessing care in a HSE-associated healthcare setting in each of the years 2018 to 2023. [51892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 584. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a GP-led model of care for transgender people, based on informed consent; his views on the current practice by the National Gender Service which advises GPs not to administer blood tests to transgender patients who are self-medicating; his plans to reduce the waiting list for assessment at the National Gender Service; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 656. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a job evaluation for support workers in Section 38 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52532/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I express my condolences to Victoria and the family and friends of Shane MacGowan on the sad news of his death today. We are thinking of all those who are affected. Yesterday evening, an important Labour Party Bill passed Final Stage in the Seanad. Our reproductive leave Bill will provide paid time off work for women who lose a pregnancy early in the term, and for employees who access...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to debate this important and long-anticipated Bill in the Chamber. We are all very conscious that the planning process has a key impact on addressing the two most major crises faced by our country today, namely the housing disaster and the climate emergency. We know we need robust and effective planning laws in order to deliver the urgently needed increased supply...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: A good deal of the Bill, as we know, restates existing provisions in previous Acts. While I was preparing for the debate on the Bill, I was reminded of a debate on one of its predecessors in 2010 when I was a Senator, namely what became the Planning and Development Act 2010, introduced by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party in government. It was found to have serious issues. However,...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: A stocking filler.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I also raise the issue of the "RTÉ Investigates" programme broadcast last night. We in the Labour Party have signalled our intention to table an amendment to the planning legislation going through the Houses seeking to address this practice of manipulation and abuse of the planning system and of the withdrawal of appeals. We would like to ask whether the Government will work with us on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Today, we saw at last welcome progress on the long-promised gender equality referendum and announcement by the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the Taoiseach of the wording proposed by the Government to change the Constitution. As the former Chairperson of the Committee on Gender Equality, I very much welcome that we will see progress. It is a year since our committee presented a report to...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to support this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. I am happy to see this issue being raised tonight. The housing crisis, as we know, is the civil rights issue of our times here in Ireland. I think there is agreement on that across the House. It was acknowledged by the Minister in his speech that we have a crisis which is challenging for anyone seeking to rent or buy right...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: This week, we have seen the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsen further. After a brief glimmer of hope last week with the humanitarian pauses, we have seen absolute devastation wreaked across the Gaza Strip, with reports of 16,000 people killed, including thousands of children. Gazans are facing a deepening horror, the UN tells us, as disease spreads, food is scarce and humanitarian aid...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with the Taoiseach; the EU has been far too passive. I am glad to hear the Taoiseach has confirmed he will be pressing at EU level next week for a text that will call for a permanent ceasefire and that will press for the two-state solution. His Government can do more, however, here at home as well. Senator Black's occupied territories Bill received cross-party support in the Seanad...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: Last week, I raised the Labour Party's campaign for paid leave for women who experience pregnancy loss and for employees accessing reproductive healthcare. Today, I want to raise a related matter. After a strong campaign from the Irish Cancer Society and affected women and their families, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, committed to bringing legislative proposals to Cabinet before...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (5 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has communicated directly with schools in relation to newly announced plans on solar panels, of 23 November 2023; and if not, if such communications, with information about the plans, are planned. [53297/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that recipients of the disablement pension and unemployability supplement do not receive the cost of living bonus or fuel allowance; her views on the need to provide additional supports to such persons in view of the cost of living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53581/23]