Results 11,521-11,527 of 11,527 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- 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.