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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It is beneath the Taoiseach to say "ag insint bréag" about members of the Opposition and to accuse us of misrepresenting. The Taoiseach is in government. It is his job to fix the housing crisis.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We in opposition offered the opportunity for a debate last week but the Taoiseach and housing Minister did not show up. Barely anyone from the Government showed up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We have another opportunity this week. The Opposition is providing opportunities-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to debate and address the housing crisis but the Government is not engaging seriously.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We in the Labour Party have been showing up for years.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I express my sympathy to the family and friends of Quham Babatunde, the man who was so tragically killed in a knife attack on South Anne Street early on Saturday morning. Indeed, I express my sympathies and thoughts to those victims of violent crime that evening and in a previous incident in Stoneybatter, also in the city centre of Dublin. These shocking crimes illustrate for many a concern...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----a more attractive career prospect and to improve pay and conditions for trainee gardaí?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his plans for new city task forces, and on when the interdepartmental group on the Dublin city task force report will submit its report. [5752/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I spoke earlier about the awful incidents of knife crime, particularly on South Anne Street, and expressed my sympathies to the family of Quham Babatunde. I do so again, as I do to all those victims of South Anne Street and Stoneybatter. Clearly we need to see the positive aspects in the report of the Dublin city centre task force implemented, particularly where the report called for 1,000...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 17. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagements with the British Prime Minister. [5754/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: As the US Administration moves to the authoritarian right I think all in this House agree that it is vitally important that we strengthen solidarity across Europe and that we strengthen our links with Britain and between Britain and the EU. Given our unique bilateral relationship with Britain and the fact that we now have a Labour Prime Minister in Britian, we will all agree it is especially...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We welcome the commitment to investing on an all-island basis and the additional funding to the shared island fund. There are two areas that I would ask to be included. As the Taoiseach did not mention them when he was listing the priorities, I want to ensure they are clearly up on the agenda. The all-island strategic rail review report was published last year and contains really important...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mining Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will supply the complete notification received in respect of the Sperrins gold mine; if he will make a statement on the notification in respect of water abstraction and discharge; and if he will make a statement on the need to request a transboundary consultation due to the River Finn SAC. [5225/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. This winter has set yet more alarming new records for people on trolleys in our emergency departments. That means more people whose care may be compromised because there is no space for them or no one to admit them. It means more risks for patients’ conditions to worsen in a place where they should expect to improve. I welcome the new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I have acknowledged there are issues with discharge rates at weekends. Clearly there are issues with workflow and management practices, but changes in workflow and management practices are no substitute for properly addressing the real issue underlying the crisis in healthcare, which is the issue of staff shortages. We are hearing from hospitals that know they need to recruit more staff,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I will ask the Taoiseach again-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----when will the Government carry out the necessary recruitment drive?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: When will it end the pause on healthcare recruitment so our communities can get the healthcare we so badly need?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Monday will mark three years since Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. I wish to express my solidarity, and that of the Labour Party, with the people of Ukraine who have endured such devastation over those three years and have defended their country so courageously against Russia’s imperialist aggression. I condemn last night’s remarks by US President Donald Trump...