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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on nutrition and access to play areas and recreational facilities for children in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the measures taken by his Department to monitor children's wellbeing while in emergency accommodation. [9313/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic Violence (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure on women's refuges in each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023; and the projected expenditure for 2024. [9314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to collect data on the role and function of staff at local authorities, as part of his Department's workforce planning for the local government sector. [9315/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average wait time for garda attendances at a scene, following a call to both emergency services and local Garda stations, in each county. [8753/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his engagement with external stakeholders in respect of the provision of paid leave for persons who have experienced a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks' gestation, or to facilitate access to reproductive healthcare treatments; if he will list the stakeholders which have made representations...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if the position of his Department has changed since 2017 with respect to funding supports for post-mastectomy patients; the rationale for cutting the allowance for post-mastectomy products; and if he will review the decision to cut the allowance. [9066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 499. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting times for ambulance arrival; and if he will supply a breakdown of average wait times in each county. [8752/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 500. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove prescription fees for medical cardholders. [8757/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the employer-led national apprenticeship programme in respect of the local government sector. [9316/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Once again, the RTÉ soap opera is distracting vital attention from the disastrous situation facing those who are at the mercy of our broken housing system. Right now, 13,531 people are recorded as homeless, including more than 4,000 children, and 18,000 homes are being advertised for short lets on Airbnb, while just 2,000 are available on Daft.ie for longer term rents. Rents are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the news the Government will not be opposing the Labour Party motion. That is welcome. That is constructive. However, not putting down a Government countermotion will be an empty gesture if there is no movement or delivery and no attempt to implement the important measures we have proposed. I agree with the Taoiseach when he says that change is not coming quickly enough. It...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday's dramatic statement by the former chair of the RTÉ board, Siún Ní Raghallaigh, clearly raises more questions for the Minister, Deputy Martin, and, indeed, the Government to respond to. I echo the calls that have been made for statements, questions and answers to be scheduled before the Dáil this week so we can finally put this matter to rest, because this has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Today, more than 1,000 people are seeking international protection here and are sleeping rough on the streets of our capital city, many of them in tents less than 1 km away from here in Mount Street. Leaving people on the streets in poor weather risks lives. Emergency measures were put in place when there was public outcry during the snow last week. However, on Monday, those vulnerable...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Guím Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan sona ar gach éinne sa Teach. I wish everyone a happy International Women's Day. On behalf of the Labour Party, I am glad to mark International Women's Week and, in particular, International Women's Day on Friday. The need to mark it is self-evident because, while we have made great progress on women's rights in Ireland, we are of...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Government housing targets are simply too low, and not delivering the necessary number of affordable homes; — as we approach the one-year anniversary of the lifting of the temporary no-fault eviction ban, Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) data shows 19,011 eviction notices were issued in 2023, and 61 per cent of these were...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, could we get a copy of the Minister of State's speech? He is rattling through it and it would be great if we could a copy of the speech.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Two days is how long the son of pharmacist Niall O’Sullivan waited on a trolley in University Hospital Limerick emergency department before receiving treatment for a fracture. Mr. O’Sullivan spoke powerfully of his son's experience on RTÉ radio this morning. This is not the first time I have raised the human impact and dangers of hospital overcrowding with the Minister....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister's response could be characterised as "Nothing to see here". That is clearly not an adequate answer for all the patients who are languishing on hospital trolleys, for the overworked staff and for those whose procedures at UHL have been cancelled without any indication of when they will actually take place. Every time we raise the reality of overcrowding in hospitals and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: The patent fact is that the spending is not enough to meet the demand. That is evidently true from HIQA reports and from the experiences of patients and of overworked staff in understaffed hospitals. Where is the sense of leadership? Where is the sense that somebody is steering this ship, that it will be all hands on deck to ensure the crisis in hospitals is addressed and that we can...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Reports from Gaza this week reflect the utterly horrific and worsening suffering of people there. It is not only the 30,000 dead under the brutal Israeli bombardment but now we are seeing children in Gaza dying of starvation. It is appalling, a man-made famine unfolding before our eyes in Gaza, with despairing families and aid workers, and stalling on peace talks. We still see this...