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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Of course, we need a mix.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Government is not-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The Taoiseach was inviting it.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the situation in India/Pakistan. [26267/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the making of any legacy deal with the UK government that would undermine the calls for a public inquiry into the murder of a person (details supplied). [26268/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding whether a national security veto in any reformed Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (details supplied) will command the confidence of victims and survivors in such a body dealing with the legacy of the Troubles; and how the policy of the Government is being pressed. [26269/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (21 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications and approvals for a student visa from students in Türkiye in each of the years 2014-2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [26266/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I join in welcoming Cara Darmody and her father Mark to the Public Gallery. I commend them and their family on their tireless and fierce advocacy for children who so desperately require additional services and supports. We will continue to work with them. Ten years ago today, we the people of Ireland used our votes to make marriage equality a reality and to make grá the law. I had...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Tánaiste for providing a little more clarity. I appreciate it is an evolving situation. There is, however, a very specific question here about the particular flight I raised with the Tánaiste. We have seen that court order from the US. I appreciate that the Tánaiste will keep opposition parties updated as the situation evolves. We certainly require much greater...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The controversy surrounding Children’s Health Ireland has somehow managed to escalate yet again over the recent days. Instead of focusing on the vital task of caring for our children, CHI is presiding over an increasingly chaotic string of failures, failures with devastating consequences for sick children and their families. The Taoiseach mentioned breaches of trust, which are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I agree with the Taoiseach that this is clearly an environmental, cultural and systemic failure. Of course, the parents and children most directly and desperately affected urgently require an independent review. However, we need to hear more from the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health – the Taoiseach is, of course, a former health Minister – about the systemic changes that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What about the HSE?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We must do more to stop the horror in Gaza. Yesterday, we learned of the horrific situation of Dr. Alaa Najjar, a doctor in Gaza who was working to save lives in a hospital when she learned that nine of her ten children had been killed in an Israeli bombardment, that her husband, another doctor, was critically ill, and that only one child was left alive. Thousands of children have been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [13747/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Taoiseach for the report on the engagement with the US President and, indeed, on the issue of Gaza. I note that he raise that with the US President. The Palestinian ambassador and Palestinian representatives specifically asked that Ireland would use all diplomatic means at its disposal, including our connection with the US, to raise the need for peace and for a ceasefire for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [15144/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: In the context of trade and the proposed CETA agreement, I understand the Cabinet was to approve an arbitration amendment Bill today due to serious concerns about the investment court system proposed in CETA. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether the legislation was approved today? If so, when will the draft heads of Bill be published? I also want to ask about concerns that the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It was Deputy Byrne.

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I pay tribute to you Lucia and the O'Farrell family, Jim, Gemma, Pia, Amy and Hannah, for your unwavering quest for justice for your son and brother, Shane. You have fought so insistently and so strongly for so long. Shane's life was cut short so cruelly 14 years ago on 2 August 2011 and I know from meeting with you so many times over the years just how much your grief and sorrow at his...