Results 11,021-11,040 of 11,520 for speaker:Ivana Bacik

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on reform of her Department since taking office. [44804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the sale of a two-acre site adjacent to a school (details supplied); and if her Department assessed the feasibility of constructing a second-level school there. [44805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for applying different rules as regards contributory pension credit eligibility for family carers who have provided unpaid care for fewer than twenty years, compared with other persons who access State payments, such as jobseekers or long-term carers. [44976/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of deploying inspectors to assess compliance with State benefits for family carers, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [44977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 12 December 2023, if she will provide an update on the matters raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44080/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1073. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the details on the Women’s Health Action Plan on postnatal supports for mothers; to provide details of the funding and the progress on each of its action points, in tabular form; if he will specifically report on the establishment of new postnatal hubs targeted at supporting women for 14 days post birth, addressing areas of postnatal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1074. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of fully funding the National Maternity Strategy. [44222/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1075. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of embedding lactation consultants in all maternity units. [44223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1076. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of embedding perinatal mental health services in all maternity units. [44224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1077. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of progressing the first mother and baby unit for mothers who require inpatient mental health supports. [44225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of establishing an obstetrics event support team to support families. [44226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1079. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of a maternity bereavement survey. [44227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Nov 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the 2022 Women’s Health Action Plan, if he will report on his Department’s achievement of the maternal health goal of developing two postnatal hubs; if he will make a statement on the postnatal hub programme; if it has dedicated funding; and budget allocation and spend on same in the past two years. [44228/24]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle, and congratulations on your election to your new role. Like others, I wish to pay tribute to the outgoing Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Ó Fearghaíl, for his work and his commitment to the reform of procedures in the House. We look forward to working with you. It is good to be back, and I think all of us in this Chamber share that sentiment....

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Congratulations to all of those newly elected and returned TDs, as we take our seats today for the first time in the Thirty-fourth Dáil. I am immensely proud of my Labour Party colleagues sitting around me in our newly enlarged parliamentary party. Deputies Alan Kelly, Ged Nash, Duncan Smith and I are delighted and thrilled to be joined by seven new Labour Party Deputies, namely,...

An Dáil a chur ar Athló - Adjournment of Dáil (18 Dec 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We, too, believe we should be reconvening on 15 January. So many urgent challenges face our society. Indeed, we have just spent the bulk of this afternoon outlining what those challenges there, and I think there is actually agreement on that. Even the Government acknowledges the immense challenges, particularly on housing and healthcare, and the immense challenges that may indeed arise due...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: A Cheann Comhairle, I welcome your ruling this morning. I welcome the statement by the Government Chief Whip this morning and, in particular, the acknowledgement by the Government that there is a need to ensure clarification in differentiating between Members of the Opposition and the Government. That is the core democratic principle that we, across the Opposition parties and groups, united...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish Deputy Martin well as the presumptive incoming Taoiseach. Today will likely be a proud day for him, his family and his supporters, and I acknowledge that. I also wish Deputy Harris, the outgoing Taoiseach and incoming Tánaiste, well. Increasingly, this feels like Groundhog Day, or groundhog week, not just with Deputies Martin and Harris swapping roles and not just with...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I am very glad that we have reached agreement today and the Chief Whip read out an agreed form of words acknowledging what was a self-evident truth, namely, that a TD could not be in government and in opposition at the same time. That was the core democratic principle that we, across the Opposition, united on yesterday. The situation in the Dáil yesterday was deeply regrettable but it...