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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2624.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available for publicly built student accommodation on lands by higher education institutions; the conditions, if any, applied to those grants; the amount of capital provided by his Department for this purpose in 2021, 2022 and 2023; a breakdown of award by higher education institution for each year, in tabular form; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2625.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of abolishing the student contribution charge; the cost of maintaining the €1,000 reduction into 2023 2024 college year; the 2023-2024 cost of extending the other one-off reductions to thresholds and grants as provided for in 2022 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33011/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2626.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first year and the full year cost of permanently reducing the student contribution charge to €1,000 or €1,500 respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 2627.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected cost of implementing a living wage for apprentices, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33013/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of the State-backed local authority loan mortgage protection scheme; if a verdict of death by suicide by one member of a couple who have taken out such a home loan invalidates the mortgage protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36403/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to an issue I raised yesterday, namely the Taoiseach's comments at the weekend which appeared to draw a connection between migration and homelessness. I know the Minister made a statement rightly pointing out that international protection applicants do not have a right to HAP or State housing supports. The reality is that the principal reason for homelessness is the lack of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----that will see at least some aspect of the Bill come into law?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 15 May 2024, for data underpinning the figures provided in Table 1 (details supplied). [37579/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 15 May 2024, if any exercise to determine average weekly figures for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023 or 2023-2024 programme years has been carried out by any State agency in order to compare to the figures for 2020-2021 as provided in the reply; if so, the data underpinning...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the annual early years sector profile survey was completed by Pobal for the programme year 2023-2024; and when the results of this survey will be added to the Early Learning and Childcare Data website. [37580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parent statements provided by each partner service for the programme years 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 will be made publicly available; and the reason these documents have not been made publicly available heretofore given that section 7.4 of the Core Funding Partner Service Agreement Year 1 provides...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure that parents are made aware of how they can request a fee review of the fees policy of their partner service creche; and his views on his Department’s plans to direct all 30 childcare committees to provide a dedicated section on their websites advertising their role in this process...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the way parents can compare fees being charged by their partner service creche to those frozen from the 2021-2022 programme year, noting that these frozen fee levels are not available from the National Childcare Scheme or from local childcare committees. [37584/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: This morning, the well-known 14-year-old disability rights campaigner from Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Cara Darmody, held her monster meeting rally outside Leinster House. Many of us attended and there were many parents there expressing their incredible distress and dissatisfaction at the Government's failure to provide their children with timely assessments of needs and proper services and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----and she has been tireless in her campaign. I am asking for commitments on her behalf today.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: It is certainly positive to see an increase in the level of stamp duty on the bulk purchase of homes, which I concede, but this simply does not go far enough. The Government resolution simply does not do enough to dissuade the bulk purchase of homes by institutional investors. We in the Labour Party had put down an amendment to increase the stamp duty rate to 20% on the bulk purchase of...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: If I can just finish on the point on our amendment, we have no idea how many apartments are covered.