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Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Israel is perpetrating a genocide; a genocide upon the people of Gaza. This motion recognises that. As we watch in horror the new atrocities being committed upon Palestinian civilians each day, there are more children and babies killed and injured and starving before our eyes and families being wiped out like the family of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar. We must do more and we can and must show...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I thank all of those across the House who supported Labour's important motion on Gaza today and I thank the Government for not opposing it. I look forward to working with the Government and the Opposition to bring about an end to the suffering and genocide being perpetrated upon the people of Gaza. Ireland has shown leadership but we can do more. We want to work constructively and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Of course, the answer is supply. We all acknowledge that but the issue is that the Government is not doing anything to bring forward supply or to increase the delivery of homes. I watched the Minister for housing give an interview last night. I heard no new ideas to address the situation facing the family I have described, a family who are in the same situation as far too many others....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise my concerns about the future of Irish rivers, in particular in the context of a plan apparently being put forward by the Fianna Fáil housing Department to redesignate a large number of rivers as heavily modified water bodies. I refer to rivers like the Boyne, the Barrow, the Corrib, the Dodder, the Liffey, the Lee and the Shannon. Concerns have been raised by Friends of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need for a clear annual schedule of guaranteed school grants; and her plans to bring further clarity and steadiness to enable schools to make financial forecasts with greater confidence. [26765/25]

Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I commend my colleague, Deputy Ged Nash, on bringing forward this important Bill. We are all aware of the spike in the cost of living. In four years, the cost of a basket of groceries has risen by more than 35%. This is having a huge impact on families and households. Organisations like Barnardos report that parents are forgoing medicines to put food on their children's plates. We are...

Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I join others in expressing sympathies to all those affected by the school shooting in Austria of which we have just heard news. Back in February, someone in the Government was briefing the media about a proposed end to rent pressure zones. For years, the Government refused to contemplate designating the whole country as a rent pressure zone. Yesterday morning, the future of the entire...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: The reality is that many of the Taoiseach's own-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: We can all agree that certainty, clarity and consistency are needed for those renting, those looking to buy a home and those looking to build and develop homes. That is precisely what is lacking in the Taoiseach's own Government's policy. He is accusing the Opposition of being caught out but he has caught out his own backbenchers. He has flip-flopped on policy on rent pressure zones,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Where is the protection?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: There are 15,000 are homeless.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: Yesterday's arrest by Israel of those aboard the Madleen freedom flotilla ship while in international waters was a flagrant breach of international law. Those taken by Israeli forces are brave activists, bringing symbolic aid to a people who have been abandoned by the world. The activists hold EU citizenship and one is an MEP. I hope the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste will raise this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: What about the meeting on 23 June?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the European Council on 20 and 21 March. [15145/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: On Ukraine, I condemn outright Russia's increasingly heavy and brutal bombardment of civilian infrastructure. We have seen more civilian casualties in Kharkiv and Kyiv in recent days. It is appalling to see that and I join with Deputy Malcolm Byrne in looking for an update on a timeline for possible accession. Ireland has been at the forefront of supporting Ukraine's proposed accession to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [16741/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the proposals we have seen, which I believe went to the Cabinet today, to create nearly 500 new third level places in key health and social professions, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and more. As I said, this is welcome because we all recognise the enormous shortfall in services. The concern remains that it will take years for these new places to generate more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: It was about recognition of qualifications by CORU.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ivana Bacik: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the shared island initiative. [26916/25]