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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What about-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [7362/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Work and job quality is one of the dimensions to the well-being framework. My party would have liked to see stronger commitments on workers' rights in the programme for Government. I want to raise a number of concerns around workers' rights with the Taoiseach. We introduced a Labour Party Bill to provide for reproductive healthcare leave for women experiencing early pregnancy loss in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the way the new disability unit within his Department will function. [7612/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach has acknowledged the system is not delivering for children with additional needs who require particular provision in the school system. Indeed, I joined a group of over 50 parents, and some children and grandparents, who resorted to a 24-hour sleepout last Friday in front of the Department of Education. I heard some harrowing stories there from parents and grandparents,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will next meet. [5756/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to return to the issue of the recruitment of special needs assistants raised with the Taoiseach by my colleague, Deputy Eoghan Kenny, earlier. Budget 2024 provided for an extra 1,216 SNAs in the current school year. Are all those SNAs in place? Will the increase of 1,600 SNAs announced in the budget for this year in fact take effect? We are all still hearing of children who have a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to an issue I raised with the Taoiseach yesterday, namely, the crisis in special education. Last Friday, I joined a group of 50 parents, children and family members who had to resort to a 24-hour sleep-out in front of the Department of Education in Dublin in order to highlight the crisis they are experiencing. I heard harrowing stories of experiences from desperate parents...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the response and saying so clearly that there is no freeze on SNAs. That is at odds with the experiences reported to us by principals. I would welcome a more detailed written response from the Taoiseach on that because we have been told there is a directive from the Department that amounts to an obstacle or blockage to the hiring by principals of the SNAs that are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: -----to ensure every child who needs a special school or class will have access to that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday, the Department of housing announced it had allocated €265 million for housing acquisitions but it is unclear how much of that will support the tenant in situ scheme. We know from announcements that there are some restrictions on who can access the scheme. It seems priority is going to families, older people and disabled people. Single renters slip into homelessness at a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (6 Mar 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been brought to reports of threats and intimidation of legal practitioners and Courts Service staff from far-right activists (details supplied); his plans to address serious security concerns arising from such threats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10264/25]

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

Ivana Bacik: They say every day is a school day. While the Dáil rose last week, we all learned something new. We all thought we knew why we had a housing crisis in this country - the number one issue facing this country, as the Taoiseach just said. We thought we had a housing crisis because of the Government’s policies and flat refusal to restrict evictions and stop families falling into...

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

Ivana Bacik: Yes there was.

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

Ivana Bacik: It is in our manifesto.

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

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach says he is open to new ideas on housing but every time anyone in opposition raises a new idea with him he never misses an opportunity to denigrate it and belittle it.

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

Ivana Bacik: As he well knows, the Labour Party's proposal clearly set out in our manifesto was to scale up the existing Land Development Agency, which we have supported in opposition, in order to ensure the State could bear the risk of building upfront. What I am hearing from builders and developers throughout the country is they desperately need upfront financing and that the absence of that is what is...

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

Ivana Bacik: With respect, people will take with a large pinch of salt the Taoiseach's claim to be willing and open to taking up new ideas to deliver more homes more quickly. People see for themselves that homes are not being delivered by the Government, nor were they by the previous Government.

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

Ivana Bacik: Scale it up.